The Government Finally Reacts To Hate Speech And Issues Warrants Of Arrest For The Admin Of These Pages…

The government through the relevant arm has finally reacted to all the hatespeech and spreading ethnic animosity and intolerance on social media and issued warrants of arrest for the admin of the following pages:

Luo Nation, RIP Citizen TV and Nyanza si Kenya.

“The pages perpetuate ethnic economic sabotage, messages of ethnic stereotypes and ethnic murder. As of now the committee (National Steering Committee on Media Monitoring) reassures the country that we are doing everything possible to track down the origins of the hate speech bloggers,” Ombara said.

Overall however, the ministry says hate speech on social media is on the decline and it will within
two weeks propose legislation to help police the Internet. “Hate speech on social media has gone slightly down in the last one week in terms of the number of hate postings. It is however not extinguished and we are therefore very happy about the Independent Communications Commission of Kenya Bill,” Ombara said.

I for one am very happy about this development and I hope that even the admin of pages like Wazimu Mkuu Raia Odinga get arrested and face the full extent of the law! Read about my complaint on hatespeech and the government’s reaction here.