Would you like to see the NPRC operating and why?
All the respondents acknowledged that they would like to see the NPRC working, albeit for
various reasons ranging from its constitutional responsibilities of promoting reconciliation,
healing and integration to issues beyond its mandate such as policing politicians from
abusing their offices and fanning violence in the future. Relevant reasons for favouring the
NPRC operation cited by participants included the promotion of peace, assisting warring
parties or groups to forgive each other, promoting unity, reducing and preventing violence,
bringing out the truth on past violations and raising awareness on human rights violations.
Most of the respondents highlighted the importance of the NPRC citing that the commission
have an obligation to bring unity, promote peace, ensuring that the truth comes out on past
violations, raising awareness on human rights violations, promoting reconciliation.
3. Level of Knowledge about the NPRC Bill Gazetted in
December 2015
Have you ever heard about the NPRC Bill?
Response
YES
NO
Total
Frequency
Percentage
36
64
100
68
121
189
The survey results show that only 36 percent of the respondents heard about the NPRC Bill
whilst 64 percent of the respondents highlighted that they never heard about the Bill. These
statistics indicates that most of the general citizens were not aware of the NPRC Bill at the
time the government was planning to roll out its thinly spread consultative meetings on the
Bill. Lack of awareness campaigns and information dissemination across the country has
been the major challenge to the NPRC processes. This means the government did not raise
awareness with regard to the commission and the NPRC bill. As such, the results expose
the government’s incapacity, failure and lack of sincerity in the reconciliation process.
If you heard about the Bill, If you saw the Bill, are you aware of the
have you seen a copy of it? contents of the Bill?
Frequency
Response
YES
NO
Total
27
41
68
Percentage
Frequency
39.7
60.3
100
27
0
Percentage
100
0
Of the 68 respondents who had heard about the NPRC bill, only 39.7 percent of them
acknowledged to have seen the bill whilst 60.3 percent highlighted that they had not seen
the bill. All the respondents who saw the bill are aware of its contents. This study assumes
that the slump in the number of people who are aware of the NPRC bill can be attributed to
the lack of government commitment in the reconciliation process. Civic Society organisations
might have also thinly spread their interventions, resulting in few populations accessing
information about the NPRC Bill and actually participating in the processes relating to the
NPRC.
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