ODM leader Raila Odinga on Wednesday, December 25 castigated churches in the country for aiding in money laundering by political leaders in the country.
Raila was addressing members of the public at the St Peter's Nyamira parish, Bondo, Siaya County as reported by the Daily Nation.
The ODM leader called upon members of the church to shun corrupt leaders and their money which could not be accounted for.
"The church should be neutral in terms of political factions. It should be the moral leader in this country," Raila stated.
The former premier's criticism of the church in aiding politicians avert taxation follows the debate over the huge sums of monetary giveaways by politicians to the church, either in form of fundraisers or tithes.
"You see people marching into church every Sunday with bags of millions of shillings whose sources they cannot explain," Raila lamented.
"The church has become an avenue for money laundering," he added.
Raila renewed his stand on donations to the church following a proclamation on church donations after he made another one while addressing a congregation in Siaya on July 21, 2019, as reported by Citizen Digital.
“People who are moving around with money in sacks are always approaching innocent churches to be invited for a fundraiser and come to boast in public that they are investing in heaven. Which heaven?” Raila critiqued.
The former premier and his camp in the past demonstrated their efforts to fight corruption orchestrated through places of worship when Minority leader in the National Assembly John Mbadi proposed to cap church donations.
In a letter addressed to national assembly speaker Justin Muturi and the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission on September 20, Mbadi proposed to cap donations by politicians to churches at Ksh 100,000 as reported by Daily Nation.
