After Mama Lucy paid a visit to Mt. Elgon even before the thought had occurred in the mind of our ‘national security’ insecurity minister, she requested the churches to go forth and make peace with the warring people.
If you ask this blogger, candidly, that is just one of her usual empty rhetoric that this government is so fond of. Too much talking and less walking of the talk. But as the President’s wife, (methinks she represented the President) that was her opinion and she had to air it and if we thought otherwise, we could as well as go and pond sand elsewhere.
I have issues with her request if that is what it was.
In Mt. Elgon and other flare-up areas, there are mosques and churches attended by the adherents on Fridays and Sundays respectively. What is clear is that there hasn’t been any religious tension in these areas.
What the areas have are politically motivated problems making Lucy’s call, a call in the wilderness. What is needed is a political solution as well as the will to solve the land question.
Any other approach will fail dismally and the earlier the people concerned see this, the better.
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