Kenya is sick from poverty and corruption, says Catholic Church

Catholic Bishops Cornellius Korir(left) flanked by Philip Anyollo during a press conference in Nairobi.08/04/2016. Photo by WILLIS AWANDU

A week after President Uhuru Kenyatta issued a State of the Nation address painting a rosy picture of the country’s achievements, the economy and infrastructure, the Catholic Church has responded with a gloomy report card about runaway corruption, incompetent institutions and a country that appears to be morally dead.

In the words of the 26 bishops, the country is “sick”. And the clergy cautioned that even with the collapse of the case at the International Criminal Court (ICC), “there are no winners or losers”. “As Catholic Bishops, we see the ruling, not as an outcome of winners and losers. The outcome of the ruling does not resolve the pain of the violence as the trauma of the post-election violence has not been healed,” said the bishops in a statement read by Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) Chair Rev Philip Anyolo.