President William Ruto has assured the media has broken its silence on attacks directed at media professionals covering Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Alliance mass protests.
Several journalists have been injured after being attacked while covering the demonstrations.
An attack that elicited uproar on Thursday is one that saw a police officer in civilian filmed attacking a media vehicle and lobbing a teargas canister at it.
Addressing the nation on Sunday, however, Ruto said the attacks are not deliberate.
He said his government will not allow the members of the fourth estate to be attacked.
"So I do not think there is any deliberate attack on the media and if there was such, we would be opposed to it and would deal with it," said Ruto.
"I have said that we will support the rights of media to carry out its function irrespective of how biased you are against us."
Members of the fourth estate were on Monday met with unprecedented challenges while covering the Azimio demonstrations.
Some journalists were asked to delete the images they captured from the demos while others encountered a gang armed with knives and were forced to surrender their equipment.
The challenges climaxed in the arrest of some.
Africa Uncensored founder John Allan Namu took to Twitter to decry the arrest of his team.
"Our Africa uncensored journalists, justlonestar and Clint Obere have been arrested by police while covering protests in Mathare," he said.
Namu said he was not sure where the arrested journalists were taken.
"This is uncalled for, an affront to our freedom to do our jobs. They need to be released now," he said.
