In their 'about us' page, they have not made secret that they don't support the trials been done at the Hague. This are their own writing.
We, the friends of Kenya, being part of the global community and law abiding citizens admired the spirit of the ICC court during its formation. But we are greatly perturbed by its metamorphosis into a monster whose main objective is to concentrate on petty crimes/offences in Africa instead of focusing its energy in dealing with serious and despicable crimes and atrocities committed by the west against innocent poor defenseless citizens of the world e.g. in Afg...
That may have a lot of truth in it, but the website brands itself as one to unearth the truth, yet they have already concluded that the truth cannot be found at the Hague. As a news website, it should stick to that and not take sides openly.
Curious is the fact that they have posted an open letter to Raila Odinga, written by one Moses Kuria and originally appeared on the star newspaper. The letter has both factual errors and deliberate ones. It paints the prime minister in the most negative image possible. At the end of the letter, there are comments and surprising is that almost all comments laud the author and brands the PM as he is stated there. On the Star newspaper website however, where the letter originally appeared, all types of comments are available,those against the open letter are however the majority. This only shows that comments contradicting the author have been deliberately deleted by the administrator of ocamposix.com.
I embarked to find out who owns the website and I found that the administrator either used a different name or is actually someone from Israel. This is what I found on whois.net
Domain Name: ocamposix.com Registered at http://www.dynadot.com Registrant: Martin Smith 78954 Tel aviv 00999 Israel Administrative Contact: Martin Smith 78954 Tel aviv 00999 Israel antidavinci@yahoo.com +235 2459875
I however strongly believe that a Kenyan owns the website and deliberately used a different name in its registration. It is also important to note that the same 'Martin Smith' has bought the domain names ocamposix.net, ocamposix.org and ocamposix.info . This may be strategic in preventing anyone with a similar idea but sincerely out to unearth the truth.
i had raised the same question on their about us page and now i know it was not just me.
ReplyDeletei think ntv should have looked more into their motives before giving it publicity.
ReplyDelete"i think ntv should have looked more into their motives before giving it publicity."
ReplyDeleteNot a chance because NTV is sympathetic to Ocampo 6. Remember that NTV is mostly run by GEMA and they believe that Uhuru should be free.
I doubt that NTV is sympathetic to the ocampo six. It may have senior people from mt kenya region but from their reporting I see as if they actually favour raila. Remember the calculation of how much shuttle diplomacy cost.
ReplyDeleteLook@ their FAQ...Total hogwash! but very cheap indeed..The first options are generally what they want you to answer for the first set of questions..
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