Senator Kipchumba Murkomen
Kenyan majority leader of the Senate, Kipchumba Murkomen on Tuesday stated that churches should also bar sinners from giving their tithes and offerings if they have a problem with the conduct of politicians.
Murkomen further suggested that churches should ban harambees(community self-help developments, e.g fundraising in Swahili language) altogether.
“It will be great to see churches ban all harambees in church. It will be even greater to see them ban sinners from contributing tithes, offerings and harambee donations in church.
“Maybe then we shall truly say we are in Caanan or better still heaven on earth!” he wrote on Twitter.
On Tuesday Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit of the Anglican Church of Kenya urged churches to stop ‘hyping’ the idea of guests of honour and harambees, adding that harambee money should not be used to sanitise leaders.
Speaking at Serena Hotel after a meeting of the Multisectoral Initiative Against Corruption (MSIAC), Sapit also asked churches to mobilise their own resources for development.
"Let us not hype this thing of harambees and guests of honour because that is where, as the church, we go wrong,” the bishop added.