Open Letter to Sky News for Referring To President Uhuru as ‘Criminal’

Sky News recently ran an article tagging the Kenyan head of State a ‘criminal’ in reference to the charges he’s facing at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The story received a lot of backlash from the Government with the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communication responding to Sky.

Europe-based Kenyan hip-hop rapper, K-Nel has also voiced his sentiments about the piece terming it “stupid”. Here’s K-Nel letter;

I came across this article published by SKY News on Friday 03 May 2013 and trust me, I could hear the blood pumping through my veins. I can’t describe my anger in words. SKY News, you know my face. Yes, K-Nel the anchor of Aljazeera TV Surprising Europe documentary. You saw my face many times as you aired the documentary on your TV channel 2011 and 2012 respectively. I only have one question; what was going on in your sane minds when you published the article below? I won’t bite my tongue by questioning you “are you out of your minds by publishing such an article?”. 

Someone from your department needs to approach me with an appropriate explanation!! This is irresponsible “journalism” in my opinion although I respect the fact that journalists exercise their freedom of speech. Let me tell you that Kenyans are optimistic about the future of this country.

 During the presidential elections, the Western Media continuously reminded us of the bloody PEV in 2007. We even had channels like CNN (just saying) perpetrating false propaganda that Kenyans were preparing for war and had set up guerilla training facilities at Rift Valley. 

Too bad the “actors” hired didn’t do their job right. But Kenyans regardless of who they supported stood up together as one nation and I don’t know whether you know a vocabulary called “Prayers” (Oxford dictionary might help you), but that’s exactly what we did. We prayed for peace to prevail in our country and the Lord almighty heard our prayers. 

Publishing such a nonsense article is childish, inappropriate and misleading. I hereby need an appropriate explanation as to why the article was published as such and I will deliver the message.