Popular cleric Reverend Timothy Njoya has asked the media to stop using an image of him being beaten by police officers during former President Daniel Moi's era.
The picture has overly been used by the media to depict the struggles Kenya has undergone in its quest for democracy and shows Njoya being roughed up near Parliament buildings.
The veteran preacher, however, wants the media to stop using the picture as his life is 'a pilgrimage of 76 years and not episodic.'
"The media should stop showing this picture. My life is a pilgrimage of 76 past years and 63 future years, not episodic," he wrote on his Twitter handle.
Njoya is one of the few remaining clerics who came out forcefully during the dark days to face up to the repressive KANU regime in the first 40 years after independence.
Alongside Dr Henry Okullu, Bishop Alexander Muge and Dr David Gitari, Njoya used the pulpit to raise consciousness on political oppression under the one-party state in the 1970s through to the early 1990s.
They interpreted the scriptures liberally, unfailingly pointing out that the kingdom was here and now, hence, Kenyan citizens must enjoy that kingdom in the present; disabusing the fallacy that Christians must suffer in this life to gain rewards in the after-life.
The preacher has often hit the headlines and was on the spot recently over a controversial book he wrote about womanhood. The book is titled: "Divinity of the Clitoris".
This move elicited various reactions with some accusing him of insensitivity and disrespect towards womanhood.
He later came out boldly to say he had nothing to apologise as he was 'simply stating what his research had concluded.'
