“People are being killed and abducted, yet the leadership continues to lie to us with empty promises.”
Those were the fiery opening remarks of Maseno South ACK Bishop Charles Ong’injo during the funeral of Engineer Hannington Raburu, the Gogni Construction MD, who died after falling from the second floor of Kisumu’s Lake Basin Mall.
Bishop Ong’injo launched a scathing attack on the current administration, decrying moral decay, corruption, theft of public funds, and economic hardships.
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He accused the leadership of playing tribal politics and urged politicians from the Lake Basin region to stop being “a choir and a chorus” when there is no visible development in their areas.
Bishop Charles Ong’injo of the Anglican Church of Kenya’s Maseno South Diocese, while addressing mourners at ACK St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Kisumu, recently criticized Luo Cabinet Secretaries for misleading their community with claims of inclusion in President William Ruto’s… pic.twitter.com/4k20K2mAhA
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"We only have two cabinet secretaries, and we cannot sleep because there is too much noise that we are in the government. What are you delivering now that you are there? You have become a choir and chorus," he said.
He warned Kenyans against being blinded by symbolic gestures such as giving the late former Prime Minister a state burial, insisting that it should not erase the government’s alleged injustices.
"This is not the first time the Nyanza people have occupied positions in the cabinet. During the years of the late Aloo Aringo and Odongo Omamo, and others who were occupying those positions, we had over six cabinet positions. But today, we hear about this cabinet issue every other day, yet our people are not benefiting from those positions," he said.
His bold remarks, directed at both the President, his Deputy, and the Nyanza political elite, have sparked heated debate among Kenyans online.
One YouTube user, @PaulMaweu-z9I, commented:
“Thank you, man of God. Tell the leaders the bitter truth.”
Another, @Janet-c3p, joked: “That ‘choir and chorus’ line has finished me!”
The bishop's remarks come at a time when Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo just secured their release after being held incommunicado for 39 days in Uganda.
The duo was reportedly abducted by armed men on October 1, shortly after attending a rally for Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine.
The Ugandan government initially denied involvement, but President Yoweri Museveni later confirmed their arrest, accusing them of working with the opposition as "experts in riots."
Following diplomatic pressure from the Kenyan government and advocacy by human rights groups, the two were released to the Kenyan ambassador and returned home, alleging they were held in a military facility under "inhumane conditions."