Category: GOVERNANCE AND OPINION

ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi has denied claims he stormed out of a church function in Western after being denied a chance to address congregants.

Reports indicated that Mudavadi stormed out of Butere Girls Secondary School grounds after ACK Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit announced politicians would not be allowed to give speeches.

Other politicians in attendance included ODM leader Raila Odinga,  Water CS Eugene Wamalwa, Narc Kenya leader Martha Karua and Cotu secretary General Francis Atwoli

However, Mudavadi said he excused himself to attend another church function where he was the chief guest in Murang’a county.

Mudavadi said he sent a message to the Archbishop informing him that he had to leave early because he needed to travel to Kinyona Catholic Church in Kigumo.

Politicians had attended the consecration ceremony of the first woman bishop in the Anglican church, Rose Okeno, in Kakamega.

Sapit is said to have given the order of the consecration programme, then said politicians would not be given a chance to address faithful.

Sapit only recognised the presence of the politicians.

Nyeri Archdiocese Archbishop Anthony Muheria said politicians are welcome to pray in churches like other Christians, but that they should net expect to make addresses.

Muheria said it is important that churches are respected as holy places and that those who use the pulpit to trade insults attract curses upon themselves.

“We welcome them because they need spiritual nourishment but they should not expect to be treated differently or compete with God’s word. This is a wake-up call to the entire nation, clergy, citizens and politicians to respect God and respect His place,” Muheria said in an interview with a local TV station.

Mudavadi said he was surprised to see reports in some sections of the media that he had stormed out of the consecration ceremony, saying they were false.

He said he attended the consecration ceremony because he understands that the country cannot move forward without women.

He said surveys indicate that women are the backbone of the agriculture sector but that in education, women lag behind in university and tertiary education.

“Data indicates that more women are affected by joblessness. If you look at the income of single parents, a single mother’s income is lower than a single father’s,” he said.

Mudavadi reiterated that his party stands for peace and a strengthened economy and that his government would put women at the front in its transformation of the economy.

He said this after scores of women leaders who attended the function challenged presidential aspirants to incorporate women in their top leadership positions.

Murang’a Woman Representative Sabina Chege said the leader who gets a female deputy president stands to bag the millions of women votes.

Samburu West MP Naisula Lesuuda said there are plans to unite all women leaders, regardless of their political affiliation.

“We want to follow in Martha Karua’s footsteps. She was elected when so few women were vying for political positions,” she said.

The MP said 23 women have been elected into the National Assembly while three are in Senate and three governors, expressing confidence that more will be voted in next year.

Mudavadi further urged Kenyans to vote in leaders devoid of anger whom he said were bound to lead in anger.

He said his presidency will guard the economy, guard the Constitution and provide an environment that will enable Kenyans to settle and do business anywhere.

Ford Kenya leader Moses Wetang’ula said the country requires a leader who will solve the many challenges facing Kenyans such as a failing agriculture sector.

“When you see us all here, it is a statement of our intent to unite the country even more,” he said, adding that Kenyans need to understand though there are different ethnicities, the challenges facing Kenyans in one part of the country, affect the entire country.

He urged Kenyans to stop politics of mudslinging and not to vote in leaders who divide them along tribal lines.

“We must build a country on truth, peace and unity. A country that we will all be proud to live in,” he said.

He says leaders who have stolen and enriched themselves while impoverishing a majority of Kenyans to an extent that now Kenyans have normalized the vice.

Kalonzo says Kenyans have thrown in the towel on corruption to an extent of praising the corrupt asmy thief, my choice.

On matters politics, Kalonzo has now dropped the CALEB tag he was given when supporting Raila and now says he will adopt the JOSHUA mantle to lead the Kenyan nation to the CANAAN that all deserve.

He says Kenya requires a paradigm shift post Covid-19 pandemic and that is why he is promising Kenyans a 24 hour economy model that will stimulate the economy in a very fast manner thus creating massive jobs to Kenyans.

The Wiper Leader was speaking on Sunday when he attended a church service at Royal Christian Church in Ongata Rongai encouraging Kenyans not to give up because a Kalonzo led government come 2022 will recover stolen wealth and revert it to the economy.

Kalonzo says COVID-19 pandemic has worsened an already worse situation and thus he promises to make secondary education free to all so as to at least ease the burden on parents.

The Wiper Boss has urged the Government to make every effort to vaccinate over 10 million Kenyans ahead of their targeted dates of December adding that the virus is killing Kenyans at a very high rate and the medication for those admitted are very expensive for a common mwananchi.

Leaders accompanying the Wiper Leader reiterated their stand that Kalonzo will not back any other leader in 2022 and that they are committed to traverse the entire country to sell a Kalonzo Presidency.

Kisii County is the Gusii political hotspot.It’s politics time and political is hardly and strongly hitting the ground and Kisii leaders are all making decisions to join the political races.Kisii county gubernatorial position heavily on the spot and each and one is eagerly waiting to see what will happen and who will stand.

Several leaders from the Kisii region have registered there ambitions to contest but they’re yet to bare declare.Women representative post has attracted a number of women who have made a clear declaration to go head on to cling to the top of this position.Hon. Sarah Bosibori Achaka Nyaenya, a renown long serving headmistress over 18 Years of service at Getenga Primary School she is among the many contestants.She enjoys a great numbers who joined universities and colleges who have managed to scoop good jobs.

Mrs.Nyaenya during her tenure at Getenga she played a vital role to help uncountable pupils to best high schools through organizing fundraisings and scholarships for the needy and special needs pupils.

The iron lady managed to assist the pupils from the humble backgrounds as she had a lot of humility,love, respect and heart to education a spirit she championed leading her to clinch into powerful positions at the county levels and Nyanza regions in the Kenya Union of Teachers.

She helped immediate graduate teachers with Teachers Service Commission letters for recruitment. Hon. Sarah in the community she had helped women foundations through arranging forums to discuss development agendas.
She is a member in the Gusii Mwalimu Savings and Credit Society which she played a key role as it stands for improving the economic wellbeing, creating economic base and formulating members savings.

She Chaired most education Committees from the Nyanza region which heavily discussed about excellence.
She believes she has a a better chance to champion the rights of women the moment she is elected the women representative in Kisii County in the Countries General elections to happen next year 2021.

She has the guts to lead as she has courage that to win. She has however urged the Kisii county people to vote for her as she has the plans to give the youths a chance to air their agendas so that she can present them once elected.
She has been so close to the community at every level and she is seen to walk every bit to assist whoever is stuck.
Hon Sarah is set to Launch her manifesto before the Year 2021 lapses,She hopes to be the Women Representative County 045,Kisii.

The love for education she has has led her to assist a majority to get scholarships from primary level to university levels, participating in the fundraisings to support the needy.

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 19-Uncertainty has hit the Kayole area in Nairobi, as protests against the killing of youth turned violent.

The man was allegedly shot dead by police after he was arrested for flouting curfew rules.“He had sent a text message to his wife saying he has been arrested,” a friend to the deceased told Crossfire News. He did not want his name to be mentioned.“Cases of police brutality have increased so much in this area. We are tired,” he added.

During the protests, businesses were closed, patients holed up in hospitals and students held up in learning institutions despite police efforts to calm the situation.

Journalists who went to cover the protests were not spared either, and some were forced to seek refuge at the Kayole Police station.“I have spent Sh500 to cover a distance of fewer than two kilometers for me to hide at the police station,” one of the journalists told Crossfire News.

All these killings have occurred during operations to enforce curfew hours and other COVID-19 preventive measures like wearing a face mask while in public.

Statistics by human rights organizations indicate that more than 30 people have been killed since March 2020, when stringent restrictions were put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19 disease.