The Media Owners Association (MOA) has appealed to all presidential candidates to participate in the upcoming presidential debate ahead of the August elections.
MOA chairman Stephen Gitagama says the debate will focus on issue-based elections as well as provide an opportunity for the candidates to debate, interact and engage.
“The debate is to allow the candidates to speak with millions of Kenyans to share their dream, to share their vision and what they would like to deliver to Kenyans once they are elected,” he said.
“Also, the debate gives an opportunity to Kenyans to interact to ask questions and create a platform to interact and ask the question to the candidates who want to be their president.”
Gitagama said that they have engaged all the candidates and most are willing to attend the exercise whose date will be communicated later.
This will be the third televised presidential debate in the country, the first being in 2013.
Deputy President William Ruto who is the UDA presidential candidate has threatened to skip the debate over what he termed as a biased media coverage
In the 2017 presidential debate, President Uhuru Kenyatta failed to attend
