Put more teeth into NCIC to help it tackle hatemongers

As we move towards the 2022 general elections, circumspection must guide us. Past election campaigns have been anything, but peaceful. Mostly, they have been characterised by violence and intolerance. The culmination of this sad state of affairs was the 2007/2008 post-election violence in which more than 1,300 died, and over half a million internally displaced.  

Though Kenyans vowed that such would never happen again, current premature campaigns point to the fact that our leaders drew little, or no lessons from that ignominious period. Some of them continue to make public utterances that amount to hate speech. For this reason, institutions charged with keeping Kenyans on the straight and narrow, like the police and the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) are duty bound to act decisively.