Kindiki was right to condemn violence, prosecute the culprits

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki when he hosted a section of Maasai leaders from Kajiado County. [Peterson Githaiga, Standard]

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki deserves credit for condemning violence in places of worship and affirming that such acts, whether by political opponents, staged for sympathy, or for any purpose whatsoever, are criminal, anti-democratic, and a violation of the freedoms of assembly and worship.

His call for impartial, non-politicised investigations into the planners, executors, and enablers of such violence is constitutionally sound and morally necessary. In an environment where equivocation replaces clarity, Prof Kindiki was direct: violence is crime, not activism, mobilisation, or strategy, and it cannot be justified, sanitised, or excused by political affiliation. Clarity, however, is only a beginning.