Leaders who fall back on scripture must ensure their words support the truth

A matatu with a painting of US presidents Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln, and civil rights activist Martin Luther King. Dr King is frequently cited as a freedom champion who stood on a spiritual platform. [Courtesy: AFP]

A string of insults, a bag of foul language, blaring character assassination and the speech still ends with “God Bless Kenya!” How is God supposed to fit comfortably in such a dark sentence?

Such is the conflicting form of our politicians’ speeches. Their boldness to accuse others of moral failures, while they themselves have a forest of logs in their eyes, is often dizzying.