CAP. 63
Penal Code
[Rev. 2012]
96. Incitement to violence and disobedience of the law
Any person who, without lawful excuse, the burden of proof whereof shall lie
upon him, utters, prints or publishes any words, or does any act or thing, indicating
or implying that it is or might be desirable to do, or omit to do, any act the doing
or omission of which is calculated—
(a) to bring death or physical injury to any person or to any class,
community or body of persons; or
(b) to lead to the damage or destruction of any property; or
(c) to prevent or defeat by violence or by other unlawful means the
execution or enforcement of any written law or to lead to defiance or
disobedience of any such law, or of any lawful authority,
is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five
years.
[Act No. 32 of 1958, s. 2, Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 19, Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 10.]
97. Assemblying for smuggling
Any persons who assemble together, to the number of two or more, for the
purpose of unshipping, carrying or concealing any goods subject to customs duty
and liable to forfeiture under any law relating to the customs, are guilty of a
misdemeanour and each of them is liable to a fine not exceeding six thousand
shillings or to imprisonment for six months.
[Act No. 40 of 1952, Sch.]
98. Wrongfully inducing a boycott
(1) Whenever the Minister is satisfied that any boycott is being conducted or is
threatened or likely to be conducted in Kenya with the intention or effect of—
(a) bringing into hatred or contempt, exciting disaffection against or
undermining the lawful authority of the Government of Kenya, or any
local authority, or of persuading any such body to alter any law or bylaw, to appoint any commission or committee or to take any action
which it is not by law required to take; or
(b) endangering public order in Kenya; or
(c) bringing the economic life of Kenya into jeopardy; or
(d) raising discontent or disaffection amongst the inhabitants of Kenya,
or engendering feelings of ill-will or hostility between different classes
or different races of the population of Kenya,
he may, by notice published in the Gazette, designate that boycott for
the purposes of this section and may, by the same or any subsequent
notice so published, specify in relation to a designated boycott any
action which he is satisfied is likely to further that boycott, including
(but without prejudice to the generality of that power) any action falling
within any of the following classes of action, that is to say—
(i) abstaining from buying goods from or selling goods to any
person or class of persons; or
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