{"id":17617,"date":"2025-04-29T12:49:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17617"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:49:58","slug":"senator-sifuna-defends-bbc-documentary-condemns-calls-to-ban-broadcaster-over-protest-expose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17617","title":{"rendered":"Senator Sifuna Defends BBC Documentary, Condemns Calls to Ban Broadcaster Over Protest Expos\u00e9."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Untitled-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17618\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has strongly defended the BBC following calls to ban the broadcaster from operating in Kenya after airing a documentary that exposed police officers allegedly shooting and killing protestors during the June 2024 anti-government demonstrations outside Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC Africa Eye expos\u00e9, titled <strong>#BloodParliament<\/strong>, has drawn sharp criticism from some leaders, including Homa Bay MP Peter Kaluma, who labelled it \u201creckless,\u201d \u201cinciteful,\u201d and \u201ctwisted,\u201d urging the government to take action against the international media house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, taking to X (formerly Twitter), Senator Sifuna dismissed such calls as dangerous attempts to silence the press. \u201cSpeaking as someone who was present in Parliament that day, the events depicted in the #BloodParliament documentary by #BBCAfricaEye are not fabrications,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sifuna further stressed the importance of media freedom, insisting that efforts to suppress the truth would not succeed. \u201cThe story of June 25th, 2024 is already written and, as they say, the ink is dry. Those attempting to rewrite it will find it especially difficult because this particular piece of history is written in blood,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documentary has reignited debate on police brutality, accountability, and press freedom in Kenya, with human rights groups backing the BBC\u2019s reporting and urging the government to investigate the allegations rather than target the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has strongly defended the BBC following calls to ban the broadcaster from operating in Kenya after airing a documentary that exposed police officers allegedly shooting and killing protestors during the June 2024 anti-government demonstrations outside Parliament. The BBC Africa Eye expos\u00e9, titled #BloodParliament, has drawn sharp criticism from some leaders, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Untitled-3-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17619,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17617\/revisions\/17619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}