President William Ruto has defended Trade Cabinet Secretary (CS) Moses Kuria after he attacked the media.
"But we must also defend the rights of those who hold the media to account when the media goes rogue, we must defend the rights of people like Moses Kuria to speak their mind the same way we are defending the media to say all the things they want including the wrong ones."
The President said that if the media houses feel pain about what others say, they should also feel the same way they write about others.
"I saw one journalist saying that the President should defend us from Moses Kuria, that's fine; I will do my bit, but I want to ask them who is going to defend me from rogue media because I go through hell all the time," Ruto said.
This is after Kuria launched an attack on the Nation Media Group over the weekend following an expose by NTV that touched on the conduct of cabinet secretaries that has caused an uproar among stakeholders and Kenyans.
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The TV station alleged in its report that cabinet secretaries engineered a drop in the prices of edible oils, resulting in the loss of taxpayer money to about Kes 5.6 billion.
Kuria threatened the media organisation using unprintable words and threatened state agencies against running adverts with the media organisation.
