Clerics call out politicians over early campaigns

Arch Bishop of Mombasa and Chairman of Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops, Rev. Martin Kivuva, (right), Arch Bishop of Kisumu, Most Reverent, Phillip Anyolo (Left), on Wednesday, September 15, 2021. [File, Standard]

The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops has called out politicians for neglecting their jobs of serving Kenyans and embarking on almost full-time campaigns at a time parts of the country are struggling with famine and poverty.

The clerics have also decried what it allegedly calls “early signs of rigging and manipulation of the forthcoming General Elections” which they attributed to the movement of citizens to register in stations away from their places of residence.