Kenya’s coalition government has lost the confidence of its people and must go, the National Council of Churches of Kenya said on July 31 after the government reneged on its pledge to bring to justice those responsible for the 2007 post-election violence that led to the deaths of 1,500 people and the displacement of 300,000 others.
In a statement published on its website and distributed to the media by the group’s chairman, the Rev Canon Peter Karanja, the NCCK said the government’s decision to drop a special tribunal to “try the suspected perpetrators of the post-election violence is the greatest betrayal of the people of Kenya.”
President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga had “failed to protect justice” and “in the face of such betrayal, Kenyans must resoundingly put across a strong message that the moral authority of the grand coalition government to govern has been grossly undermined.”
Has the NCC and their parent group, the WCC, demanded their former poster boy Bobby Mugabe resign yet?
Dear number 1. please do not confuse the NCC in the US with the NCCK (the National Council of Churches of Kenya). The NCC is the US probably doesn’t know much about Kenyan politics…
Ah….I shoulda read the piece. Thanks.