Bloggers and other social media users have been asked to stop spreading ethnic division and hatred online.
Recently, there has been a rise in the cases of ethnic and political hate messages being spread on Facebook, twitter and other social media sites.
A number of arrests and court charges and fines have also been made concerning the same.
Kisumu County Commissioner Erastus Ekidor said that there was need to appreciate each and everyone’s ethnic and political background as that is what makes a nation.
“Spreading hate messages against other tribes and political affiliations will not help in building the nation but would instead divide the country. As a nation, tribes are depending on each other for many reasons such as food supply, human personnel and expertise, minerals and other resources, political coalitions, intermarriages among other,” said Ekidor.
Speaking to the press at his County Headquarters office today, Ekidor said that more arrests will be made on those found spreading ethnic hatred and other malicious rumours to members of the public.
He added, “Members of the public normally get news very fast from the social media sites and that is why there is need to sieve the messages being spread there.”