Nation suspends top editor who wrote stinging editorial on Uhuru

Daily Nation has suspended one of its top editors for authoring a scathing editorial against the government on 2nd January 2016.

Mr Denis Galava (pictured above), who is the newspaper’s managing editor in charge of special projects, was sent home today, in what is being described in the industry as a harsh punishment for the journalist given that the piece went through other editors, including the Saturday Nation managing editor, before being published.

Nation Media Group editor in chief Tom Mshindi said in a circular to editorial staff that Mr Galava has been asked to “take some time off to allow us time to review the circumstances of the writing and filing of the editorial for Saturday Nation, January 2, 2016.

Mr Galava was in August 201 moved from the Saturday Nation where he was managing editor to his current position
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The full-length, 580-word, editorial criticised the Uhuru Kenyatta administration and touched on the issues of unemployment, economic stagnation, corruption and poor leadership.

“Mr President, unemployment, corruption, bureaucratic incompetence and economic paralysis are the bane of your regime,” it read in part.

“….Mr President, there comes a time when the rhetoric must stop and some work gets done…For close to three years, you have been declaring your tigritude on rooftops, it is now time to pounce. Not least because your legacy hinges on it, but it is the only decent thing to do.”