KTN Journalist Ken Mijungu on Tuesday, July 9, announced that Daadab Member of Parliament Farah Maalim was banned from his show.
This was after a clip went viral of the parliamentarian allegedly telling President William Ruto to clamp down on Gen Z protestors.
The translated clip showed Farah Maalim declaring that if he were the Kenyan President, he would never have allowed Gen Z to protest against the Finance Bill.
The video in question depicted the lawmaker making remarks bordering on incitement and advising President William Ruto to take an extremist position on the ongoing protests.
“A lawmaker said this! A seasoned legislator. As a patriotic Kenyan, I will never host him on my show again! Never.”
Maalim defending himself after the video in question went viral, remarked that the video was digitally manipulated describing the entire situation as a political witch-hunt.
“The video making the rounds has been edited. It's all cutting and pasting, taking a word from here and putting it together,” he defended himself.
Farah Maalim stated that it was likely that the people who edited the clip were from Somalia.
“It is Somalis who basically would do that, for other reasons, because I also weighed in on the politics of Somalia,” the Wiper Party elected legislator claimed.
The parliamentarian did not deny the part where he remarked that Gen Z was attempting a coup against a democratically elected government.
Despite the clarification, Ken Mijungu stood his ground maintaining that he would never invite the legislator as a guest to KTN studios.
However, it must be clarified that this is Ken Mijungu's personal preference and Standard Group, KTN's parent company, reserves the right to invite the legislator to interviews and talk shows.
