Kenya: Church Condemns Election Violence, Ethnic Clashes - AllAfrica.com

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The Catholic Church have condemned political force witnessed in parts of the state and called on politicians and the authorities to continue peace in the tally up to elections.

Bishop Simon Peter Kairo of Nakuru, also the bishop president of national Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, said it was sad that campaign-related violence was being witnessed while ethnical clangs had broken out in usually volatile parts of the country.

Media studies also quoted Cardinal-designate John Njue condemning force that left 1 individual dead, following a clang between police force and raucous people in Central and Eastern Kenya.

Bishop Kairo warned that in progress insecurity in Metric Ton Elgon, Tana River, Molo and Kuresoi could displace one thousands of electors and deny them the chance to elect leadership of their choice.

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"We are asking the authorities to move decisively, since it have all the resources to guarantee that people are allowed to dwell in peace and ballot at the adjacent elections," said Bishop Kairo.

"The authorities should also counterbalance those people who lost their land during the clangs in the 1990s and carry through promises to give land to different communities," he said. More than 10 people have got been killed in the past 1 calendar month alone owed to clangs in respective parts of Kenya.

Bishop Kairo urged politicians to reprobate force even when it is perpetrated by their ain protagonists against those of opponents.