A section of elders drawn from various communities living in Uasin Gishu County have brushed off reports of hate leaflets that are said to have been cited in several areas.
The leaflets are claimed to be threatening some of the communities living in the county.
But in a media briefing at the County headquarters in Eldoret town, the elders said they have not seen any of the said leaflets.
Led by the Kaburwo Council of Elders chairman in Uasin Gishu John Yego, the elders affirmed that different communities in the county have been living in peace for the last ten years, and that they will maintain to do so even after the upcoming general election.
Call for peaceful election
They dismissed any attempts to incite the communities against each other.
“Here in Uasin Gishu there are all communities and each of them have a right to live here. We don’t want people that are out to incite us,” Yego said.
Further, he dismissed fears that some of the members of the communities were planning to move out before the next Tuesdays election.
“Nobody will migrate from here. Reports of leaflets in this county we have not seen any of them. We are also hearing about them in the media,” said the Kaburwo Council of Elders chairman.
Similar sentiments were shared by other elders drawn from Luo, Kikuyu, Kisii and Borana communities among others.
And with elections a week away, the elders challenged the security team to move with urgency and probe the source of the leaflets, if there were any found in the county.
“Those spreading propaganda aimed at threatening others should know that we don’t have a thing here. The government must get to the root of these claims because all we want is peace,” said Romans Odero, the Luo Counil of Elders chairman in Uasin Gishu.
“This is our home, and we have no other place we can go to. If we have some individuals planning incitement against various communities in this county, we will not entertain it,” added Kikuyu chairman in Uasin Gishu Zacharia Mutheki.
DP Ruto blames Office of the President
Reports of hate leaflets in Uasin Gishu have been doing rounds on various social media pages for the last few weeks.
But addressing a rally in Eldoret town on Monday, August 1, 2022, Deputy President William Ruto and his close allies claimed operatives in the Ministry of Interior and National Coordination were behind the said leaflets.
The DP asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to reign in on the officials based at his office to stop what he described as ‘dark plans’.
“I want to tell my friend Mr President, the same way you told off DCI George Kinoti when he started that nonsense of post-election violence, please tell off the characters at the office of the President who are now printing pamphlets to cause disharmony in the country. They need to stop because they are bound to not to succeed,” said the UDA party leader.
