NCCK Secretary General Canon Peter Karanja at a past event. [Photo: the-star.co.ke]
The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) Uasin Gishu branch has distanced itself from a proposal by the council's national officials to have the constitution amended so as to create three more positions in the executive.
NCCK had proposed that the president should appoint a Prime Minister, two deputies and official leader of the opposition for inclusivity in government.
The proposal has however not gone down well with some NCCK officials who now say they were not involved before the proposal was made public.
"As church leaders, we have a mandate to ensure our people live in peace and harmony but when we start advocating for the creation of political positions while Kenyans are still bitter to each other then we have lost focus," an NCCK official in Eldoret town who sought anonymity said on Friday.
"Religious leaders have various views on this issue and whatever Karanja (Canon) and his people in Nairobi said was their personal opinion. We were not consulted and people are not happy at all," added the Uasin Gishu NCCK chairman Bishop Josphat Kimani.
According to the proposal by Canon Karanja, the PM and his two deputies who will sit in the cabinet and answer questions in Parliament will be sourced from the party which got the second highest votes in an election.
"This should be an expanded executive of the winning party and not a coalition," the NCCK Secretary-General told the press in Nairobi, Tuesday.