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| MCK CEO David Omwoyo Photo (FILE) |
Tertiary Colleges and institutions offering a course in Journalism without being validly registered face a closure come end of April, the Media Council of Kenya (MCK) announced on Tuesday.
MCK Chief Executive Officer David Omwoyo says the council
will officially notify Kenyans the onset of the nationwide crackdown nationwide
beginning end of April.
“We shall shut down all colleges and institutions that
offer journalism course through the back door. We shall give out an official announcement
at the end of April” he noted
According to the CEO dozens of colleges are not registered
and do not have the facilities to teach the subject.
He says some of the colleges do not have a certified
journalism curricula.
“Some of these institutions are not registered and
lack the facilities. They are so many in the Coast region and Nairobi and
western Kenya” he said
Omwoyo however noted that the coast region and Nairobi
and western Kenya are victims of the same.
The CEO warned students who have gone through the colleges
that their certificates are not recognized.
“It very difficult to know the exact number of
colleges in this business, but we have some in the Coast region” the MCK CEO
said
He however pointed that it is difficult to know the
exact number of colleges doing the business saying some of them are randomly
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