Following the enactment of NCIC Act in December 2008, Assistant minister Wilfred Machage and Mt Elgon MP Fred Kapondi have already been arraigned in court charged with hate speech alongside a businesswoman.
The three were, however, acquitted for lack of evidence.
The Act stipulates that hate speech is punishable by fine or jail or both.
Incitement to violence attracts five years’ imprisonment without the option of a fine.
Under the National Cohesion and Integration Act, making a hate speech that stirs ethnic hatred attracts a maximum Sh1 million fine, or three years in jail or both.
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