OJ MEDIA RESOURCE

 By Janelle Okongo Journalists are the key propellers of information. They perform their job to their best level in ensuring information reaches wide audience. Journalists sacrifices a lot and go extra mile endangering their lives, with an intention of keeping the world informed. Politicians should accord much more respect to the media personnel. It is through these individuals that politicians are able to speak to large masses across the world without in person interactions. They should refrain from behaving in uncivility manner by deploying goons to intimidate journalists. Their presence in rallies should not be muddled up with role of a spy. The purpose of journalism is neither pleasing those who hold power nor covering events for personal gain. Journalists collect, investigate, analyses and report all beats full of facts. Journalists are being assaulted through physical attacks and verbal threats with the aim to silence them. Violation takes form of murder, kidnap, cyber-bullyi...

 By Janelle Okongo  Extrajudicial killings that are continuously being executed in the country, are raising an alarm and inflicting fear and insecurity to people as the family of deceased battle with psychological torture in the struggle to overcome the loss. The murder of a Pakistan investigative journalist, Arshad Sheriff at Magadi, Kajiado county is a deep leak in the dark to our country. This tends to feature the culture of impunity in our country where individuals are abruptly deprived off their right to life. The circumstances revolving around the death of Sherrif raises much more questions on what exactly triggered his execution. Was he killed for mistaken identity? Why did the police fail to look at the number plate of his car to determine if he was the culprit? Why was the driver not shot?  Arshad's killing has raised a lot of suspicion and this is endangering the lives of investigative journalists responsible for uprooting evil deeds of the society by working u...

 By Janelle Okongo "Mental health is about the functionality of your brain and all that impacts it,” says Oludara Adeeyo, a psychiatric social worker and author of “Self-Care for Black Women.” Mental health is a crucial aspect of overall well-being. According to the Ministry of Health in Kenya, it is estimated that one in every four Kenyans (about 11.5 million people) live with a mental health condition.  It's essential to take care of your mental health, just like you take care of your physical health. With the increasing pressures of modern life, it's easy to neglect mental health.   The Kenyan National Commission of Human Rights estimated that 25% and 40% of outpatients and inpatients suffer from mental health conditions. The most frequent diagnoses of mental illnesses made in general hospital settings are depression, substance abuse, stress, and anxiety disorders  A report of WHO (2017), ranked Kenya fifth among African countries with elevated depression cas...

By Erick Kashara It is almost three years since Covid-19 struck the world where people died, businesses failed, and economy was ruined among many other direct and indirect impacts. However, the striking of the deadly disease turned to be a hope to some people in the society as it opened opportunities which wouldn't have come their way if it was not for the pandemic. Jackline Atieno a resident of Kisumu County in Kenya had struggled in life trying to make ends meet until 2021 when COVID-19 struck where she turned the tragedy into an opportunity. She could many days without any meal unless assisted by the neighbors. She also used to beg along the streets for help. “like any person living with disability, I would wake up early in the morning to go and beg people along the streets of Kisumu, sometimes I get what to eat while sometimes people don’t give you” Atieno said. To combat Covid-19, The World Health Organizations (WHO) proposed the use of face masks to avoid the spread of the vi...

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