Opinion & Analysis
Purveyors of hate speech are Kenya’s enemies
Higher Education minister William Ruto (3rd right) with MPs from left Cyrus Jirongo, Kiema Kilonzo and David Koech walk out of the CID headquarters on Tuesday where they had gone to show solidarity with their colleagues Wilfred Machage, Fred Kapondi and Joseph Kutuny who had bad been summoned for over allegations of hate speech. The three MPs were charged with incitement to violence. Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE
Posted Thursday, June 17 2010 at 00:00
The gravity of the matter cannot be gainsaid.
Hate speech too often prefaces massive discrimination and genocidal violence. In many mature democracies, exponents of hate speech face very severe legal sanctions indeed.
The peddlers of hate speech are genociders in waiting.
They must not prevail in Kenya, whoever the purveyors of their cancerous creed might be.
Dr Ndemo is the PS, Ministry of Information and Communications.
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