Yes, we now know that some bomb-like goods were planted by mysterious guys in Uhuru Park during the ‘Prayer’ meeting called by some local televangelists on Sunday.
The goods, confirmed by criminal investigators as grenades, thankfully ‘waited’ until late in the evening when they exploded causing few deaths and dozens of injuries. A deadly stampede is reported to have followed the three explosions and many injuries could have resulted from the mad rush for safety.
That aside, and the organisers, mostly renowned priests, displayed hypocrisy, but more of inexperience of the highest degree when the blasts occurred. First, how can a sober man (let alone a Bishop...Dr Someone) dismiss an overt blast as a gunshot or some not-so-serious stuff and let people close their eyes to pray. It is foolishness and that priest ought to apologise before starting to point fingers. Such naivety caused many injuries because the other blasts, which were avoidable considering the time it took to blow, caused major losses. Had the first blast been taken seriously, there is a high possibility the second and third could have been avoided, or at least the number of casualties reduced.
Or did he (that pastor who dismissed the first explosion) know something. Why did he urge crusaders to move closer the dais, a short distance from where another blast would go up soon?
Anyway before the deadly incident, when the Christian leaders were addressing the crowd, everyone was enthusiastic enough. All and sundry subscribed to one course then; calling for the rejection of the draft. It did not matter the real agenda initially put forward by the clergymen- a crusade to pray. When calls to sing to the tune of the song by the ‘renowned’ men of the church they obeyed and sang their hearts out.
But inequality and differences in the kingdom of God were manifest soon after the attack.
Bishop Margret Wanjiru, the ‘anointed’ one of the Jesus is Alive Ministries (JIAM) was whisked away by her security men who by then had parted with the crusaders’ mission-to pray together. It was not time to herd around but forget prayers and run home.
Other Bishops, Reverends, Deacons and other Clergy, they- the sacred owners of the churches represented disappeared and only reappeared at Kenyatta National Hospital to console with poor survivors and the grieved who had fallen victim of the attack. Of course to shed crocodile tears too.
The normal Christians were left for God to help them.
Yellow Shadows1: The church leaders have no basis to conclusively blame the Uhuru Park grenade attacks on those in the Yes camp. What the Christian leaders did in furiously accusing those in support of the proposed constitution (yours truly included) was a clear show of a lack of knowledge in matters biblical.
YS2: The so-called televangelists who had dreams of en-grouping two million heads at Uhuru Park ought to be reminded that the small Park cannot hold such a number, and there is no ground it can hold such in the country, unless some estates are demolished around the Park.
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