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Police should go slow on regulation of churches

When Pastor Ezekiel Odero appeared before Senior Principle Magistrate Joe Omido at Shanzu Law Courts in Mombasa on May 2, 2023. [Robert Menza, Standard]

Police officers cannot be trusted to storm churches and arrest religious leaders they deem to be running cults just like they do illicit brew dens. Church leaders from Western Kenya have a valid concern after several incidents where police officers, chiefs and their assistants went to churches ostensibly to conduct investigations.

Majority of Kenyans agree that churches need to be regulated especially after the Shakahola massacre in Kilifi County, where so far 237 bodies have been exhumed from shallow graves. Reports indicate that the victims starved to death believing they were on a journey to meet Jesus.

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