Easter Sunday: Clergy calls for end to doctors strike

With the doctors’ strike now entering the eighteenth day, the church is offering to lead talks between the doctors’ umbrella union KMPDU and the Ministry of Health.

Nyeri Archbishop Anthony Muheria on Sunday condemned the two sides of what he said was using human life as a trading currency as health services were paralysed in public health facilities across the country.

“There can be a way government and those who are concerned in this negotiations please find a formula while you look for a lasting solution the Catholic church bishops of Kenya are willing to help find a solution but please let us not use the currency of human life for whatever good cause you have it is not worth losing a life,” said Muheria.

James Wainaina the Bishop of Murang'a Diocese said; “Both parties need to set aside their differences and come to the table to find mutual beneficial solutions with the ultimate goal of reducing the suffering of the sock and vulnerable Kenyans who are in dire need of medical services.”

In other churches across the country, the Easter message was laced with calls to the government to immediately resolve the mistrust around the fertiliser subsidy program as well as address the corruption claims bedevilling different ministries.

“The two CSs for health and for agriculture should honourably resign people are opening bags of fertilizer written NCPB and that is a government agency and they are removing stones instead of fertilizer and the CS says hii ni propaganda this is a bandit country,” said Charles Ong’injo, the Bishop of ACK in Maseno South.

Bernard Nyangeri, the priest of Rangenyo Catholic Church noted; “nimeona habari kuwa kuna fertlizer gushi kile ningeomba ni kwamba tuwe watu waadilifu wanaoenda sambaba na sura tuliyoumbwa nayo.”

Christian faithful mark the Easter period to commemorate the crucifixion and ascension of Jesus Christ.