President Uhuru Kenyatta should backtrack and see the need for the government to regulate religion due to the high radicalization rates of the young people in the country.
Mushrooming of Churches drawn from a realistic perspective does not help this country but rather encourages 'crime'.
Just like Zambia, the Kenyan government should create the ministry of religious affairs and start the regulation process.
For instance, Zambia where individual congregations have a way of holding each other accountable through their leadership teams and structures and Annual General Meetings with church constitutions and boards and statements of faith.
Kenya should put measures for someone can only ‘qualify’ to be a pastor if they have undergone Bible training.
The state should also attach certain conditions for all foreign pastors entering Kenya for religious purposes.
Kenya is one of the countries that has over five hundred denominations that bear names some of horrific nature.
Article 32 of the Constitution gives people freedom of religion.
Despite the article encouraging the religious aspect, freedom of worship should be touted to be encouraging radicalism since even law enforcement agencies never interfere with religion based on a notion that it is 'godly'.
The war on terrorism should not just be narrowed to surrounding factors as the criminological argument does not support that.
The government should follow all religious activities in the country and have the powers to confer certificate for practicing religion.
If any person wants to start religious denomination must he or she must apply to the government for them be granted to practice after thorough scrutiny on the motive of religion.
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