KBC news anchor suspended last night over demeaning comment on President Uhuru
So last night the national broadcaster KBC aired a clip of Rights Activist Boniface Mwangi addressing the media about a planned demonstration over corruption.
KBC news anchor-cum-reporter Roncliffe Odit was sent to cover the press conference by Boniface Mwangi.
Odit filed the report and also voiced it; but he failed to chop out a certain part which Boniface called President Uhuru Kenyatta ‘commander-in-thief’.
And KBC last night broadcasted the video with the part the Right Activist called Uhuru a ‘commander-in-thief’. They even uploaded the clip on their official YouTube Channel before they pulled it down today Wednesday October 2 at around 11.36 am.
“.” Boniface Mwangi said in a clip broadcast on prime time bulletin and posted on YouTube by KBC.
As said earlier, KBC has pulled down the video from YouTube but Ghafla! had already downloaded the video by the time they deleted it.
Inside sources at KBC tell Ghafla! that Roncliffe Odit was last night called to the office of the Editor in Chief who told him to go home and that the suspension letter was to be sent to him later.
The editor was on phone talking to a ‘big man’ when Odit walked to the office. There was no explanation to Odit’s suspension.
Odit’s colleagues at KBC have however confined to Ghafla! that the up-sound (byte) of Boniface Mwangi telling Uhuru that he is now the commander-in-thief was the reason why he (Odit) had been suspended.