UDA Now Wants NCIC To Investigate Joho And Junet For Sharing Edited Video Of Ruto

The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has been requested by the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party to investigate some members of the Azimio One Kenya Council for disseminating an inciting parody video of Deputy President William Ruto.

The party requests that the commission take action against Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho, Suba East MP Junet Mohammed, and the ODM party over what they refer to as “propagating ethnic violence” ahead of the August elections in a statement by UDA Secretary General Veronica Maina.

In the widely shared social media video created by the two leaders of the Raila Odinga-led Azimio party, Maina asserts that NCIC should supervise the suspension of both their official Twitter accounts and ODM’s.

“We would like to draw your urgent attention to a video posted by the Azimio Coalition Party Council Members; Hassan Ali Joho, Junet Mohamed and the Orange Democratic Movement, a constituent party to the Coalition Party through their official Twitter Accounts,” Maina stated.

“This video is a choreographed version intended to cause, elicit and spread hate, incitement to violence, ethnic discrimination and disharmony. The video has also been intentionally edited with a deliberate aim and objective to cause ethnic hatred, fear and intolerance during this peak political season.”

She added: “We implore your office to act immediately and take action with a view to take down the unlawful videos, as well as suspend the respective accounts propagating hate speech.”

Ms Maina further pointed out that the three verified Twitter accounts which jointly command over three million followers, have and continue to cause damage in terms of incite ethnic violence in the country.

“This is against the express provisions of Section 13 of the National Cohesion and Integration Act, 2008. Their Twitter accounts through which they have published the edited video have a massive following on the platform, and the said videos have been widely shared,” she noted.

“The deceptive and edited videos have caused and will continue to cause hate, spread paranoia, and incite violence against ethnic communities in the country.”