The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ordered the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to investigate a viral clip of a popular Nairobi pastor for tribal incitement.
This comes after a video went viral of the popular pastor making allegedly outrageous, provocative sentiments against some ethnic groups in Kenya thus making DPP to initiate his probe.
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The pastor is heard making inciteful tribal remarks towards the somali community in Nairobi alleging that they are an enemy that is slowly taking over kenya as other communities fight each other clearly showing incitement.
“I will make myself part of the people who have started the struggle for the liberation of the Kikuyu. I will tell these people that our enemy is not Ruto, our enemy is the Somalis. While Kikuyus are fighting Luos, Woriahs are taking over Kenya.”
According to the ODPP, the preacher’s remarks could incite ethnic contempt, hatred, hostility, violence, or discrimination among Kenyans and therefore action should be taken before escalating further.
The utterances caused mixed reactions from a section of social media users who proceeded to call out the preacher, prompting the Director of Public Prosecutions to initiate an investigation into the matter.
“Very sad indeed, if this is the kind of preaching in the mainstream church, then action should be taken. Ithink it’s high time the DCI should wage a prosecution for this kind of hateful speech.”
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The investigation department is expected to forward the file back to the ODPP for prosecution upon the completion of the investigations against the city pastor.