Media is the eye of the society and the voice of the voiceless and any effort to gag media from speaking out the truth about issues affecting the society and its leadership will not bear any fruits but will give courage the Fourth estate to dig and unearth the truth in any matter and bring it to the limelight. The members of the press are governed by age-old principles that can’t and should be tampered with.
In Africa, the freedom of the press is still being compromised and cases of journalists being attacked while on duty are common, while others have been murdered. If you become an agent against the media who will you run to, to air your grievances when you have problems. The death of Joseph Masha, a journalist from Mombasa, raised many questions and his family is asking for a further investigation to reveal the cause of his death, according to his wife, his death is related to his duty.