Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has penned a letter to parliament protesting a decision to have the Hustler vs Dynasties campaign criminalized, saying its consequences could destabilize Kenya. – By Gerald Gekara.
Raila has argued that a decision to criminalize the campaign which has gained support all over Kenya would only turn into a class war that may end in extreme preferential violence against a certain class.
“I would strongly appeal to members of parliament to drop any attempts to legislate against this otherwise deadly slogan. As a country, we fought for, and should respect free speech and association. We should be able to allow the Deputy President and his team to continue with their chosen slogan without any inhibitions.”
Raila likened the Hustler Dynasty campaigns to the unfortunate holocaust of jews in Germany.
Nazism profiled German society on the lines of race, social classes and tribe. It had the Aryan race, which it considered the master race, and whose survival Hitler pegged on the elimination of Jews, Romanis or Gypsies, the Indo-Aryan, the Slavs and the “inferior sub-humans” who were seen to be the problem in Germany.”
“These ideologies caused a great deal of trauma to Germany and the world. They ended in the Holocaust. I fear the “hustlers vs dynasties” narrative will have the same deadly consequences for Kenya as Nazism did for Germany,”
The National Assembly Security Committee drafted a Bill aimed at punishing people who appear to propagate class division in the country with those found guilty sentenced to five years in prison or pay Ksh5 million fine.
