Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - National Assembly Deputy Speaker Gladys Shollei has once again called out the Catholic Bishops for what she calls crying without offering solutions.
Speaking during an interview,
Shollei castigated the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) for
revealing that they had personally discussed with President William Ruto the
pending debts owed to faith-based health facilities.
“Good manners and proper ethics
is that if I have had a conversation with the head of state over a problem, I
then don’t go in public and announce it. That is just bad manners,” Shollei
said.
“They are not supposed to come
out and cry, say things are bad and everything is going wrong without giving a
solution,” she added.
Shollei took issue with last
week’s decision by the bishops to call out the state, noting that the men
of the cloth were playing to the public gallery instead of seeking a direct
audience with the president.
“If they really wanted to
resolve the problem with the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) or Social
Health Authority (SHA), what they should do is seek an appointment with the
head of state and say this is what we see is going wrong, these are our
proposed solutions and this is where we can help in trying to resolve it,”
Shollei noted.
With faith-based organisations
running a significant chunk of the health facilities and medical training
schools in the country, the bishops indicated in their presser that physical
meetings with Ruto had failed to yield any fruits despite promises made.
However, Shollei maintains that
the church had erred by issuing a public statement, noting that instead, the
church should preach hope to Kenyans.
“The church should not be
selling doom, telling everybody that things are crumbling and there is anxiety.
The church is supposed to sell hope and hold our faith,” Shollei remarked.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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