from: Bishop Dr. Washington Ogonyo Ngede

January 17, 2012

GENERAL ELECTIONS

WE as the Nyanza Council of Church Leaders representing 200 Churches are appealing to Kenyans to pray for our Nation and to be patience during this time of election mood.

We are also appealing to the two principals in the Grand Coalition Government to allow the next General Elections to be held in December this Year. This is because Kenyans are normally familiar with December as General Election Period.

By December this Year, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) shall have put all the necessary preparations for the General Elections hence making the elections to be held at that time.

December is a Holiday where all schools across the Country are closed and if elections are held in March next year as recently ruled by the three High Court Judges then learning activities maybe disrupted because most of the schools are normally used as Poling and counting Stations.

The International Community has also said they are comfortable with December this year General Elections and can finance it.

At the same time, we the Church Leaders in Nyanza condemn in the strongest term possible the utterances made against the Prime Minister Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga especially by his former advisor on Coalition Affairs Mr. Miguna Miguna.

We are kindly asking Mr. Miguna Miguna that should he have a personal grudge against the Prime Minister’s Leadership, then he should settle it in an amicable way but not wash his dirty linen in public.

The office of the Prime Minister is not the first office to suspend or fire Government Officials, this has even been done at the Office of the President but Kenyans have never heard anything like name calling from those officers who have since been suspended or fired from the office of the President attacking the Head of State through the Media. The Prime Minister should be respected by all loving citizens of this country.

We are also asking Mr. Miguna Miguna to stop out dated and mischievous Politics that cannot be accommodated in a New Kenya especially at this time of new Constitution Dispensation.

The Prime Minster is a Reformist who has suffered for the change that Kenyans have been yearning for thus smearing his name with dirt Politics should not happen.

We the Church Leaders cannot sit back and watch Politicians smearing other colleague’s names with dirt.

SIGNED BY: –

BISHOP DR. WASHINGTON OGONYO NGEDE.H.S.C.

CHAIRMAN: NYANZA COUNCIL OF CHURCH LEADERS