- Uhuru urged the church to remain steadfast and defend the rights of Kenyans.
- The former president also asked Kenyans to embrace peace and build their country.
Image: OFFICE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT/X
Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has warned about politics of betrayal in the country.
Speaking on Saturday during a Catholic church event to ordain two new bishops in Nairobi, the former President urged the Church to be aware of betrayers.
He urged Christians to embrace religious leaders who will help them whenever they have challenges.
"Usaliti ni mwingi uko huko upande mwingine, usaliti ni mwingi sana lakini kwa wasaliti tunawaambia hata Judas alisaliti Yesu lakini hata aliwacha hela na kuenda kutafuta kamba," he said.
(There is so much betrayal on the other side, there is a lot of betrayal but to the betrayers, we tell them that even Judas betrayed Jesus but he left all the money and took the rope).
"Be careful with church betrayers, but I can't see so much betrayal here. Religious leaders are cooperative, if you talk to them well they will help you in your work."
Uhuru urged the church to remain steadfast and defend the rights of Kenyans.
The former president also asked Kenyans to embrace peace and build their country.
"Let's love one another and let the church take its role to defend the rights of Kenyans," he said.
The former President said amassing wealth is not all that a soul needs.
"Let's work together for the flock and bring them into your trust and greener pastures. I pray that the Bishops will speak their mind in the interest of their people,'' Uhuru said.
"The church is the conscience of society, it is for the church to ask if we are living to that calling."
Uhuru was joined by other leaders to witness the Episcopal ordination of Bishop-Elect Simon Peter Kamomoe and Bishop-Elect Wallace Ng'ang'a.
Some of the leaders who graced the occasion included Uhuru, Former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta Chief Justice Martha Koome, Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetang'ula, Public Service CS Moses Kuria and Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja among others.
Episcopal ordination confers the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders.
It makes the bishop a legitimate successor of the apostles and integrates him into the episcopal college to share with the Pope and the other bishops care for all the churches.
The occasion also confers the bishop the offices of teaching, sanctifying, and ruling.