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Kenya needs fresh ideas to tackle extreme religion and rogue clerics

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President William Ruto receives the report of Presidential Taskforce on the Review of the Legal and Regulatory Framework Governing Religious Organisations at State House, Nairobi from its Chair Reverend Mutava Musyimi. [PCS]

After a five-month delay, the Reverend Mutava Musyimi-led Taskforce on effective ways of regulating religious extremism submitted its report to President William Ruto this week.

Disappointingly, the report offers little in fresh ideas. Commissioned after the Shakahola mass crime a year ago, the 21-person team listened and read hundreds of testimonies and submissions as well as benchmarking trips to Tanzania, Rwanda, the UK, and the US.

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