Sifuna condemns abduction of Standard Group Associate Editor

Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has declared that the fight to restore democracy, media freedom and the rule of law following the abduction of Standard Group Senior Editor will form the centrepiece of the Linda Mwananchi government vowing to defeat President William Ruto in the 2027 General Election.

Sifuna accused President Ruto’s administration of undermining constitutional freedoms and creating an atmosphere of fear, saying the country must be returned to what he described as “the rail of the six important values” enshrined in the Constitution.

Speaking in Bumula Constituency, Kakamega County during the burial of Mary Goreti, the sister of Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah, Sifuna strongly condemned the abduction and arrest of a Standard Group Associate Editor, Alex Kiprotich, arguing that journalists must be protected if Kenya is to remain a democratic country.

“It is impossible that you are driving on the road and you are taken away the way the way the Standard Group Journaliat and Editor Alex Kiprotich was taken. Kenyans want to live in a free country. We do not want to live in fear,” said Sifuna.

He questioned the circumstances surrounding the incident and accused the Government of failing to protect media freedom, adding that the Linda Mwananchi movement would seek to restore institutions and constitutional safeguards if elected to power, arguing that democracy could not survive where citizens, journalists and political opponents lived in fear.

"You cannot just arrest a senior journalist in the middle of the road with police carrying firearms, then you dump him some 500kilometres near the dam, a country cannot have democracy if media is not being respected and allowed to do it's work as per the constitution," said Sifuna.

He said the movement’s agenda was not merely about removing the current administration from power but it's main plan is rebuilding systems…