NCIC provides gadgets to monitor hate mongers

NCIC chairman Francis ole Kaparo. [Boniface Okendo]

Police officers have been given some 267 electronic devices to monitor hate speech.

While handing over the gadgets in Nairobi on Saturday, National Cohesion and Integration Commission chairperson Francis Kaparo also launched a robust elections monitoring programme which will focus on building and enhancing capacity of police to handle hate speech cases, with main focus being on equipping them with skills of dealing with perpetrators.

Mr Kaparo also put on notice politicians spewing hate speech.

''Kenyans should desist from praising hate mongers. No political office is worth the life of a single Kenyan," he said.

The chair said the war against the vice needs a multi-agency approach, including those from the law enforcement sector.