The clergy from Nyamira County has been challenged to raise their voice on matters governance in order to keep area leaders on their toes for effective delivery of electorates.
Speaking at a funeral ceremony at Motagara village in West Mugirango, outspoken Nyamira pastor John Ondabu of Nyamira Conference said most of his colleagues kept mum on matters governance, making it easy for area leaders to fail to deliver on their mandate.
He said the work of the evangelists is not only to minister but also to ensure they communicated needs of the locals to political leaders.
“I wish to encourage members of the clergy to change their perception that their work is only to minister. They must rise up to the occasion and challenge leaders to work for the locals,” said Ondabu.
“There is nothing wrong for us to discuss politics because we are also human and role models to many people in the society. We have therefore an obligation to put our leaders on toes as a way of ensuring work is done by elected leaders,” he said.
Ondabu further asked the county administration to put enough mechanism in a bid to curb corruption in the newly administrative units of the county governments.
“Devolution was meant to help people at grassroots. I would like to urge our Governor John Nyagarama and his administration to come up with mechanisms of taming corrupt individuals who have taken advantage of the devolved units to embezzle public funds,” he added.