Overrated yellow journalism newspaper ‘Star’ has run into problem following an article published on their Sunday’s political pullout.
It had published an opinion article titled ‘Uhuru should resign or be forced out through civil disobedience‘ and was written by Henry Makori before it caused an uproar countrywide.
The piece had called for President Uhuru Kenyatta to resign arguing that failure to which, it called for civil disobedience against the current regime.
It further argued that most Kenyans had become less confident in the Head of State, except in the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and most recently, residents from the Nyanza region.
“President has turned into a dictator and is relying on the military and Luos nation support to stay in power,” captioned the media house in a tweet promoting the story on social media.
The careless by The Star’s to publish the divisive article has elicited harsh Croatian from readers with a section of Luo leaders now threatening to call for a boycott of the newspaper that has now steadily been profiling the community for associating with President Uhuru.
The faster the Star apologises to the Luo Nation, the better for them! pic.twitter.com/4BxZd1uwps
— Hon. George Peter Kaluma (@gpdkaluma) June 13, 2021
President Uhuru Kenyatta was right when he said kuna gazeti zingine ya kufunga nyama kama The Star newspaper. How is Raila and Luos helping Uhuru to stay in power. I find this story totally misleading. pic.twitter.com/uSyyAGnet9
— Josh Oluga (@Josholuga) June 13, 2021
Foolish Jounalism by the star.Meanwhile President Uhuru is the best President kenya has ever had.He is overworking @Karanjakibicho @FredMatiangi @StateHouseKenya https://t.co/Iv1YTopCqY
— Babu Owino (@HEBabuOwino) June 13, 2021
“Ati Luos are the ones preventing you from removing the same President you gave a Birthday Cake that looked like a voter’s card? The same Luos you said had no stake in your God-chosen economy? You guys will kill me with laughter one day,” Nation columnist Gabriel Oguda complained.
Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino accused the publication of becoming a mouthpiece for Deputy President William Ruto.
Owino expressed his shock at the newspaper’s editorial team to allow an inflammatory article of the sort to be published in their newspaper.
“The wording of this article is designed to fan flames of ethnic animosity against the Luo community in Kenya by running a negative narrative against us.
“Given our collective history as a country that has battled against tribal conflict, I call upon the National Cohesion and Intergration Comission to immediately commence investigations into the motives behind this article and to hold those responsible accountable,” Owino addressed on Facebook while praising Uhuru for the achievements he’s done over nearly two terms.
The controversial piece comes days after they published a headline on the effects of COVID-19 on bedroom activities between couples, titled COVID-19 kills libido, ruins fun in bedroom, in which social media users raised a number of questions on the integrity of the media house.
Headline by the Star newspaper on June 9, 2021 on the effects of COVID-19 in bedroom activities amongst couples. /TWITTER
The author went ahead to refer to Luos as cows in reference to being followers of Raila
While the inflammatory article isn’t online the PDF version on the same can be seen here.
Such irresponsible journalism shouldn’t tolerated in the name of media press. In a highly polarized country and a flaming political season, media can’t be allowed to abuse the privilege of media freedom at the expense of the country’s security. The media council should there move in and punish the newspaper and if they can’t tame this nonsense then the Luos and other responsible citizens of the country know how well to deal with such situation.
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