Standing former gubernatorial aspirant in 2022 Chachu Ganya, during a meeting with elders from Dukana Location, urging them to promote peace. Photo: BHB Chalbi.
Peace ambassadors in Loiyangalani, Marsabit County have called on parents to raise their children in ways that embraces and calls for peace, instead of raising them along tribal lines, to avoid witnessing inter-clan conflicts experienced across various parts of the county.
Led by peace ambassador Terasalba Sintiyana and Naftali Kara, they called on parents to shun tribal remarks around their children, to raise a generation that interacts and lives beyond tribal lines, as the future is dependent on the current generation.
Sintiyan has urged parents especially mothers, to be cautious on how they bring up and conduct themselves before their children. She urged mothers to avoid using hateful and discriminatory statements around their children.
“Parents should speak about peace around their children, and explain to them that other tribes are not their enemies. These children have different lives and how they do things. Let us embrace peace and mind what we speak around our children especially mothers, let us be peace ambassadors from our homes,” she urged.
Her colleague Kara has called on leaders from Marsabit to stop inciting residents from their communities, sentiments earlier reinforced by Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen during the County’s Jukwaa La Usalama tour. He further urged the leaders to closely work with the security agencies in the area to ensure security is beefed up in the county.
“Despite the fact of what is going in, we will strive to live in peace, however our peace is also determined by how our leaders speak to residents and their communities, they should mind what they say. We want them to work with security officers in the county to ensure that peace is restored,” Kara added.
The two called on social media users to use the platforms in accordance with the law and stop spreading hate, derogatory remarks and hateful sentiments, as well as disrespecting leaders.
“Our learned children, should stop spreading hatred through social media, we struggled to send them to school so that they can be of help to the society, stop using social media to instigate peace, let us embrace peace,” Sintiyan pleaded.
Kara further backed up calls to regulation of social media by the government, sentiments earlier echoed by Marsabit Jamia Mosque Sheikh Mohamed Noor, as youths have been misusing their freedom of expression to disrespect leaders.
Their peace calls come days after insecurity has become rampant in Loiyangalani in the recent days, on Thursday morning, criminals killed two residents and left several others injured following the unfortunate morning incident.
