Standard Media Group Newspaper Managing Editor resigns

The Standard managing editor Dennis Galava has parted ways with the Standard Media Group, just a year after joining the media house.

According to reports,Galava has been serving notice in the last one month, and yesterday, December 16, was his last working day.

Galava joined the Standard in October 2019, three years after his controversial exit from the Nation Media Group owned Newspaper, Daily Nation.

Galava was dismissed from Nation Media Group in 2016 after he wrote a hard-hitting article criticizing President Uhuru Kenyatta.

The editorial criticized President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration and touched on the issues of unemployment, economic stagnation, corruption and poor leadership.

“Mr President, these half-measures are harming the presidency and your authority as the First Citizen of Kenya besides tormenting Kenyans. Among other challenges, it creates an impression of a reluctant leader, one who enjoys the trappings of office but is not ready to get the work done,” wrote Galava.

NMG’s Editor in Chief Tom Mshindi later wrote a statement defending the media house for sacking Galava, saying that the scribe wrote the article without consultations.