Members of clergy in Lower Eastern
who are members of National Council of Churches of Kenya and the Lower Eastern
Inter-denominational forum have registered their dissatisfaction with some
events in Machakos county.
They
condemned the evil events that unfolded at Machakos town during the rugby
tournament held at Machakos Sports Club.
Addressing
the press in Machakos, the clergy took great exception to the great and
irresponsible consumption and the lapse of moral values and common decency that
was witnessed among the youth during the much publicised.
The
speech was read by Archbishop Timothy Ndambuki, the chairman Lower Eastern
Inter-denominational forum and national vice chairman of NCCK.
Ndambuki
said students were in their midterm and attending the South Eastern Show and
also drivers who got drunk in the course of their work since the alcohol was
being sold by roadsides were some of the disturbing incidents.
“The
youth were doing it in the guise of celebrating the rugby tournament. More so,
we condemn in the strongest terms possible the selling of alcohol to school
children,” Ndambuki said.
This,
he said, endangered the lives and many road users key among them innocent
children and women.
Ndambuki
warned that development without morals is not development.
“The
fact that the clergy have never been involved in the planning of these events
has created a loophole in which no moral guidance is ever given regarding
the preservation of morality in the county,” the archbishop said.
The
irate clergy posed some questions to both the county and central governments
including, who licensed the selling of alcohol even in places that the alcohol
Act that regulates its sale prohibits?
Where
were the law enforcement officers when these beer sellers sold alcohol to
underage youth and school children given the fact that this was being done
publicly?
Also,
does the government really support its own alcohol and drug fighting agency
(Nacada) which has been working with the church to fight drug abuse in lower
eastern?
They
further claimed that it is possible that all politicians in Machakos county are
in cohorts with some unknown forces to destroy the present generation as a
strategy for their old guard to remain in power.
The
clergy wants to know whether Nacada boss John Mututho had any business
commenting on what happened in Machakos since he had done nothing about it when
it was happening.
In regard to the rugby tournament,
the enraged clergy proposed that in future, all such events be made away
from the town centre in a designated area and whose point of entry not to be
main junction but a direct route from Mombasa road to that area. Also all such
events should be licensed and overseen by Nacada and its officers be backed by
police to enforce the law and arrest and prosecute all those deviate from the
law.
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