Nandi residents urged to maintain peace and stability ahead of August polls.

Leaders in Nandi have been urged to shun divisive politics and use of inflammatory remarks during electioneering period.

The members of Consultative Forum led by Dr Christopher Seurei claimed that hate speech and incitement statements are among the causative agents feared to cause political instability among the locals.

They called upon leaders to shun away from using abusive languages during their political campaigns, and instead, Seurei want them to preach peace ahead of general election to avert occurrence of post-election violence.

“The government and the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) should wake up and take up their responsibilities seriously. The rogue leaders should accordingly face the wrath of the law to tame the culprits who are the perpetrators of tribalism and incitement,” he stated.

Noting that distribution of security personnel is one of the major aspects during political season, Mr. Seurei, the consultative forum Chair urge the ministry of Interior to equitably distribute the police offers across the six Sub-Counties to maintain law and order during party nomination exercise.

Rev. Nicholas Kosgei also regretted that the youth are currently misused by the politicians to execute heinous incidents, thus called upon the young legible voters to elect development oriented persons into public offices.

“It is disturbing to see how our youth heckle to various leaders during political rallies, and others paid to deface and pull down campaign materials. It’s utterly very wrong. We need them to use this chance to democratically put accountable leaders that would articulate their issues and legislate economic policies that will effective generate employement opportunities.” Said Rev. Kosgei.

However, the committee advice the media houses to maintain neutrality in the dispensation of the political content to public, and therefore, they emphasized to play a key role in promoting peace and unity in the society.

Women Representative in the forum, Selina Chelimo Wekesa appealed for “equal chances to all aspirants across the political divide, to campaign and selling their development agenda or manifestos for the voters to make informed decisions in the nomination ballot,”