Clergymen opposed to the draft include John Cardinal Njue (Catholic Church), Bishop Cornelius Korir (Catholic Church), the Reverend Peter Karanja (National Council of Churches of Kenya), Bishop Stephen Kewasis (ACK), the Reverend Patrice Chumba (AIC, North Rift), and Geofrey Songok (Reformed Church of East Africa).
Cardinal Njue has taken issue with the retention of Kadhis courts in the draft and maintained it was wrong to introduce religion in the constitution because Kenya was a secular State.
"Why should one religion get favoured against the rest?" asked Njue.
The Anglican Church of Kenya leader, the Reverend Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, however, has gone against the grain and asked Kenyans to join Kibaki and Raila and support the Proposed Constitution.
"In my opinion, the document is better than the current one, and we should vote for it and amend some clauses later," said Wabukala.
Muslim leaders have roundly applauded the passing of the document in Parliament and promised to support it through all the remaining stages.
It is pure commonsense that whoever removed the seperation of State and Religion only did it maliciously, to include Kadhis Courts.
ReplyDeleteLets stop this crap! Let Muslims fund and run their courts anywhere in kenya but not in the Constitution!
Big NO.