Institutions, Individuals Support Church’s Unveiling of Anti-Corruption Campaign in Kenya

“We want to thank them (bishops) for the direction they have given for the fight against this monster corruption,” MP Wamalwa said and added, “as members of parliament we are going to put laws in place, we are going to support the fight against corruption.” 

The legislature also lauded the Bishops for banning politics within the Church building saying, “Politics should stay away from the Church.”

Pope’s representative in Kenya, Archbishop Bert van Megen acknowledged with appreciation the Bishops’ move and said, “The initiative of the Bishops in Kenya is a very good initiative which could be an example for many other local churches in Africa.”

“You know that I am also the Nuncio of South Sudan and this is one of the things that I will bring to the Bishops of the country when I meet them,” Archbishop van Megen said in an interview with ACI Africa.

Hundreds of religious and clergy who were among the estimated 50,000 pilgrims who took part in the National Prayer Day at the Village of Mary Mother of God Shrine, Subukia in Kenya’s Nakuru diocese.

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“I support the Bishop’s move on banning politics in church,” Sr. Mary Dativa of the Sisters of Mary Immaculate (SMI) of Nyeri in Kenya told ACI Africa and explained, “the campaign is good and uplifting even to the society because when politics are done inside the church they bring confusion and distraction to the Christians who had come to pray to God.”

“Greatly happy for the act of the bishops and the invitation to all Christians not only Catholics to kill and work against this animal called corruption,” said Fr. Paul Njoroge Kimani in an interview with ACI Africa.

“If we can follow the humility that the bishops have demonstrated by removing their shoes, going down on their knees and standing greatly strong to condemn the act of corruption our country can go far,” Fr. Kimani, a Franciscan Conventual added.

“We are taking a top down approach, that is, we want the Bishops to own the process, the priests to own the process and the families to own the process,” Grainne Kidakwa of Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (CJPC) of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) disclosed to ACI Africa in an interview.

“It is not only for Catholics but also for Muslims and any other denominations,” Kidakwa noted and added, “it is a new beginning for us, it is a new start, we have had challenges in the past but we want to own this process as Catholics.”

“We are committed to (fighting) corruption not only in words, but in action and therefore we hope that the message goes across the board to everybody, to every person in all spheres of life,” the Deputy General Secretary of KCCB, Fr. Lucas Ongesa Manwa told ACI Africa.

Jude Atemanke is a Cameroonian journalist with a passion for Catholic Church communication. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Buea in Cameroon. Currently, Jude serves as a journalist for ACI Africa.