Mutumu Mathiu, Managing Editor of the Daily Nation, explains the confusion about the facts of the grenade killings in Uhuru Park:
For every inaccurate report in the newspaper, there is a chain of people who have lied and misled the press.
An official I called told me only 24 people had been hurt. Complete disinformation. Our reporter had physically counted 75 patients.
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Finally, officials speculated that it was a home-made device, made from party crackers. This is what we told Kenyans who read our early editions.
We are surrounded by liars. The government does not hire people to give information to the media. It hires liars to mislead the media.
Update: Good writing on the context of the bombing from Jeffrey Gettleman in the NY Times.