Larry Madowo has terminated his contract following the clash
with his bosses.The NTV journalist announced he had quit on social media.
For starters, Larry Madowo disagreed with senior Daily
Nation editors after they refused to publish his article.Madowo’s opinion piece
titled ‘Why it’s a perilous time to be a journalist in Kenya’ was instead
published by CNN.
The opinion piece addresses government crackdown on media
houses and intimidation of journalists.Nation editors feared the article could
offend the government and perhaps they couldn’t deal with the repercussions.
Larry finally decided to terminate his contract to write for
Daily Nation following the ordeal.His decisions comes after Uhuru’s lawyer
Ahmednasir Abdullahi called for his resignation.
“On Thursday, I
terminated my contract to write the #FrontRow column in the @dailynation.It was
an honour & I’m grateful to the paper for the page since August 2014,” Larry
Madowo tweeted.
