Hate speech has been a very controversial topic leading up to the elections in August [Photo/AngazaNews]
The timing could not have been any more controversial as campaigns are currently ongoing and candidates have shifted to social media to help push their agendas.
As a result the government has expressed concern with the idea of candidates using hate speech in their campaigns which has managed to find its way to social media and officials are coming up with ways to address the problem.
"We have seen a lot of activity online during the campaign season and I can tell you that almost every day, there is someone calling me to take down some piece of inciting content," explains Joe Mucheru, Information, Communication and Technology Cabinet Secretary as reported by The Standard.
The CS was quick to point out a video uploaded to YouTube titled, “The Fifth Estate', run by Mutahi Nginyi as an example.
He also contacted Google to have the video taken down.
The video which has gone viral with over 185,000 views on Facebook alone aimed at investigating the cause of Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery’s death.
"Did Nkaissery really die or did they force him to die?" Mutahi Ngunyi asks rhetorically in the nine-minute video before adding; "in my view, Nkaiserry was assassinated."
Despite the video results of the postmortem on Monday confirmed that Nkaissery died of a heart attack.