Worshippers barred entry to Mt Kenya
Posted by Administrator on December 27, 2009
Police in Embu sealed all routes to Mt Kenya where hundreds of traditional worshippers were planning to hold prayers.
Embu West DC Mohammed Maalim warned the worshippers not to try and sneak into the forest. “We have not been informed if the worshippers have permission. They should go back where they came from,” he said.
The worshippers said they planned to hold traditional prayers to cleanse the country. One of the organisers, Ms Ruth Wanjiku, said they planned to pray facing Mt Kenya, as did their forefathers, a culture captured in Jomo Kenyatta’s book, Facing Mount Kenya.
Blue ribbons
She said the many ills afflicting Kenya, called for serious prayers. “The country has suffered a lot and that is why we want to pray for a new beginning,” she said.
The worshippers, travelling in vehicles with blue ribbons to symbolise a new beginning, were screened by police at Samson Corner to ensure that they were not headed for an oathing ceremony.
A similar event was cancelled in 2007 after it was suspected that members of the outlawed Mungiki sect were taking part.
Ms Wanjiku said the worshippers would not venture into the forest, but would choose strategic places along the highway where they would pray facing the mountain.
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tugemo said
There was no any justification to stop these kenyans who wanted to go and worship their God in the mts.there is still apartheid in kenya which must be fought tooth and nail.
Majority of these worshippers belongs to the lowest class of pple in kenya society.Who believes Msungus religion has destroyed all our Moral fabrics in our society . They believe msungu imported religion has killed African cultures and traditions in the intrests of a christian white god who has got nothing to do with their mts Gods, whom they have been worshipping since the creation of this world .Kenya govt is bloody wrong indeed.
Let us wish these determined pple to wage the struggle further and wish them good luck hence the freedom of worship is enshrined in both kenyas constituition old and new!