16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Ground number six is about serious reasons to believe the Deputy President has committed a crime under national law pursuant to Article 151(b) (ii) of the Constitution.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
The specific complaint is that there are serious reasons to believe that His Excellency, Rigathi Gachagua, has committed crimes under Section 13(1)(a) and 62 of the National Cohesion and Integration Act.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Section 13 of the National Cohesion and Integration Act provides that it is an offence---
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Section 13 of the National Cohesion and Integration Act states that it is an offence for any person to use threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour where the person intends to stir up feelings of ethnic contempt, hatred, hostility, violence or discrimination. The section also makes it an offense to use words or engage in such behaviour when having regard to all the circumstances, ethnic hatred is likely to be stirred up.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
Section 62 of the National Cohesion and Integration Act states that- “A person commits an offense when the person makes statements that are intended or are likely to stir up feelings of ethnic contempt, hatred, hostility, violence or discrimination”
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
It was pursuant to the post-election violence and the country resolved that we needed a law as a result. Therefore, it is a law that is supposed to ensure that we in office live to promote national unity and not the opposite.
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16 Oct 2024 in Senate:
He has under Article 150 of the Constitution in relation to this ground. There are serious reasons to believe that he has committed wrongs against the National Cohesion and Integration Act, and extraordinary in nature. If you allow me, these are not my words. I have been accused of urging the National Assembly to believe me. These are not my words, they are words of the Constitution, under Article 150.
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