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Muirani Moves To “Contain The Fire” Lit By Pastor Beatrice

Mr. Githuku wa Muirani, one of the initiative takers of ”Kibaki Tena” Lobby group in Scandinavia, has said that Pastor Beatrice Kamau should stop meddling in the affairs of Narc-Kenya Scandinavia because the Party is capable of solving its own problems.

Responding to a recent attack on him by the Pastor, Mr. Muirani said that Pastor Beatrice should not try to arbitrate in any perceived dispute within Narc-KS because she is not a member of the Party.

On Tuesday this week, the Pastor said that it is her who convened a meeting last year of Narc-Kenya MPs in Stockholm before Narc-KS was formed and that from her knowledge,  Muirani was not part of those who formed Narc-KS.

In response, Muirani said that it was not Pastor Beatrice who convened the said meeting. “Beatrice convened a meeting of Kenyan MPs from different parties when the MPs came for a seminar in Stockholm. She did not convene the meeting where Narc-KS was formed”, Muirani said. After the meeting in question which was held in Skarpnäck, another meeting was held at Mwaura’s residence together with the MPs and Narc-KS was formed.

Mr. Muirani said that “as a woman of the cloth”, he expected Pastor Beatrice to concentrate on issues of spiritual nourishment, not being partisan on political issues.

“Pastor Beatrice is supposed to harmonize the Kenyan community, not open new avenues of conflict”, he said.

The Pastor had questioned why Muirani was quick to call a Prayer meeting for three Kenyans who were murdered in the United States but when one of his family members got into trouble in Sweden and ended up in jail, he did not call for any Prayers. According to Pastor Beatrice, this was hypocrisy.

In response, Muirani said that he went public and declared that the Prayer meeting that was held for his cousins who were murdered in the US also included prayers for his relative who was jailed in Sweden.

The Kenyan politician however said that he could not comment on allegations that he once wrote a letter to the Swedish authorities calling for the deportation of Pastor Beatrice to Kenya when the Pastor sought political asylum in Sweden in the 90s. “That is a legal issue and I will not comment on it at the moment”, he said.

In a brief and carefully worded response, Mr. Muirani  said that despite the attack on him by the Pastor, he wished her well in both her political and spiritual advancement.

Judging by the virulent nature of the missiles that were fired by Pastor Beatrice in Muirani’s back yard, the politician’s response is moderate and probably designed to contain the fire that was lit by the Pastor instead of fuelling it even further with more inflammable substances.

Okoth Osewe
 

September 13, 2007 - Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis