- NCCK urge police, NCIC and DPP to control political incitements.
- This country is not ready for bloodshed, displacement, deaths and others inhuman activities as a result of politics.
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Clerics have asked the country's leadership to solve their differences for the sake of peace.
The NCCK have said the politics being traded between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto's camps mean a lot to the country's peace as it heads to August polls.
The National Council of Churches of Kenya on Saturday said Uhuru and Ruto are symbols of national unity, and solving their differences publicly was wrong.
The council said the accusations they are trading were tearing the country apart.
Bishop Edwin Ogolla of NCCK asked the two come up with a strategy of solving their differences since they might end up inciting each other's supporters to rise against one another.
"We need this country today, tomorrow and many years to come. We need to coexist and we cannot do so if there is no peace."
NCCK said country's peace lies in the hands of the government, calling on it to stand firm on what may cause division among Kenyan's.
Secretary general Cannon Chris Kinyanjui said the government has enough mechanism of taming incitement along tribal lines.
He said a lot of them are spread by politicians, when they start accusing one another, urging Uhuru and his Deputy to take the lead.
Kinyanjui further asked the the National Cohesion and Integration Commission as well as the police, to rein in on politicians and others individuals inciting people during campaigns.
"This country is not ready to experience bloodshed over politics. Hate speech against each other has caused tribalism in this country."
"We have witnessed bloodshed, displacement of people and loss of property. It is very painful and ugly," Kinyanjui said.
He said the elderly, women and children suffer the most.
Kinyanjui asked the police and the NCIC to be firm so that the innocent are protected.
"This year's campaigns started earlier, and we can see and hear them speaking. We are asking the police, NCIC and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions to ensure those arrested face full force of the law," he said.
"At this age, a country like Kenya should not be fighting because of politics. We are developing and we need to protect the gains achieved socially, politically and economically," he said.
They spoke at Jumuiya Conference and Country Home on Saturday at the close of men's conference.
-Edited by SKanyara