The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has summoned Daadab Member of Parliament Farah Maalim to appear before the Commission on Thursday to address his controversial comments regarding recent protests against the Finance Bill 2024.
NCIC stated that it is investigating utterances made by the MP in Somali language, where he purportedly threatened to ‘slaughter 5000 Gen Z protesters’ if he were the President of Kenya.
“The utterances are likely to incite feelings of contempt, hatred, hostility, violence, or discrimination, and affect harmonious coexistence between groups of different political affiliations in Kenya, contrary to Section 13 (1) (a) of the NCIC Act,” NCIC stated.
In the wake of a viral video showing Maalim making these inflammatory remarks, calls from Kenyans for his arrest and prosecution intensified. The undated video shows Maalim condemning Kenyan Gen Zs for attempting to march to State House during the anti-Finance Bill 2024 protests.
“This was an attempted coup, a clear attempted coup. Children of wealthy business owners, wealthy parents and kids raised on ill-gotten wealth, 80% from one tribe were dropped off in downtown and told to riot and take over State House and Parliament buildings,” Maalim stated in the video.
He further added, “God forbid if I was president I would have slaughtered them, 5,000 of them daily. Serious, there is no two ways about it.”
Responding to the controversy, Maalim defended himself, alleging that the video was edited to misrepresent his statements.
“It’s all editing, cutting and pasting, taking a word from here, another one from there and putting it together. There is a lot of nonsense there. It’s Somalis basically who would do that because I weighed in on their politics. It’s not the true picture,” he asserted.
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