Senator Orengo warned that Kenya had begun a 'dark age' for the Bill Of Rights through the "criminalisation of pollitics and enlarged space for intolerance, bigotry and negative ethnicity". Orengo termed the act as a “tragic trend in the law enforcement sector to criminalise legitimate political speech and activity in the name of hate speech which is mainly targeting the opposition". Jubilee cannot win this war because it is based on falsehood and a false sense of entitlement to occupy for all time the high offices of the State," Orengo went on to add in the statement. [Photo:BENJAMIN SAKWA/Standard]CORD leaders have decried the government’s alleged interference with free speech. The Siaya Senator went on to add that speech concerning public affairs through self-expression is the essence of government and that the "scale for determination of evil counsels from good ones, to tell the truth as opposed to lies and falsehoods is more speech, not enforced silence.'

Source: Standard Digital June 29, 2016 04:52 UTC