Uasin Gishu Woman Representative Gladys Boss has told off Catholic bishops asking them to keep off from affairs of running the country and focus on their spiritual work.
Boss said President Wiliam Ruto was elected to lead the country and the bishops should let him do his work.
She said she was 'disappointed' by the statement issued by Catholic bishops critisising the government on various issues of national interest.
“Their job is spiritual work and they should leave the business of running the country to elected leaders,” Boss said.
She said having been brought up as a girl who grew up in a Catholic school he felt heartbroken by the statement from the bishops.
She said the bishops had no moral authority to talk about corruption in government yet the same was happening in church.
The legislator said the bishops had sunk to the lowest level by choosing to criticise President Ruto’s government yet they had access to him and could have gone to talk to him privately.
“They have easy access and can go talk to the President in private instead of castigating the government in public,” she said.
She said the bishops were looking for cheap publicity like the politicians they accuse.
“The Catholic bishops have sunk too low and are alarmist. I am disappointed in them,” she said.
Boss who is also Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly said it was wrong for the bishops to talk about killings and abductions without giving details on who had been killed.
“If bishops are now alarmist then we are finished because they should be the ones praying for us and giving us hope,” she said.
She said inasmuch as the clergy had the right to correct leaders they must do so through the right channels and with respect to the government.
