The National Assembly Speaker and presidential hopeful, Justin Muturi, has questioned President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive on the Covid-19 protocol.
While presiding at the closing ceremony of the Counties Public Service Boards meeting in Mombasa on Friday, October 29, Muturi stated that what the President did when announcing the easing of the Covid-19 protocols was to ignore matters that are so important to the society, and prioritize politics.
Muturi mentioned that it is unfair to restrict church attendance but allow full capacity in public service vehicles, bars and political rallies.
He said that this directive is ironic since the ones restricted are the only groups that have always ensured the Ministry of Health's guidelines on Covid-19 are observed.
“Churches and other religious places of worship are the most disciplined in observing these guidelines, yet they always face attendance restrictions," noted the National Assembly Speaker.
He went ahead to challenge the President to start by restricting attendance in political rallies and other places that do not observe the guidelines, but allow the religious places full capacity.
"Even us politicians are not subjected to any Covid-19 restrictions in our rallies, why restrain attendance in places of worship?” Muturi posed.
He asked the President to immediately call for removal of attendance restrictions which affect churches and other places of worship.
“The same way we have allowed vehicles, bars and rallies to operate without restrictions, let us also allow churches to operate in full capacity,” he remarked.
Muturi made his sentiments a week after President Uhuru Kenyatta vacated the nationwide curfew that had been in place since March 2020.
He directed that as much as the curfew had been vacated, restrictions in places of worship shall remain in place.
