July 07 2014
All media houses
Attention News
Editor,
RE: NEED TO
PREACH PEACE AND UNITY IN OUR COUNTRY
Receive warm greetings and cordial
regards from the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops.
In the recent past, the Catholic
Bishops have been studying the deteriorating state of our state as relates to
heightened state of insecurity, the rising political temperatures tending
towards negative ethnicity and the perceived inherent corruption within our
systems.
We are greatly concerned and have as
a result initiated discussions at different levels with political leaders and
engaged different community groups in our ongoing peace building and governance
programmes.
We wish to appeal to you to join the
Conference of Catholic Bishops in promoting peaceful co-existence among Kenyans
irrespective of their political and ethnic affiliation.
We acknowledge that the Media play a
pivotal role in information circulation and opinion forming and therefore
appeal to you and your media house to:
·
Reintroduce the peace messages on all media as were
played before, during and after the last General elections considering that
they played an important role during that time.
·
Ensure unbiased content which does not incite on all
media.
·
Moderate live coverage especially of political rallies as
well as guest speakers on Television and radio shows.
We acknowledge that it will take the
concerted efforts of all Kenyans and especially deliberate action by mainstream
media to restore the confidence of the people of Kenya in our country. The solutions
to this crisis must be found by all citizens through our intervention.
Kindly join us to help ensure
peaceful coexistence and unity in our country Kenya.
Yours
faithfully,
________________________________
Very Rev. Fr. Vincent Wambugu
General Secretary
CC: All Arch/bishops
