The government went overdrive on November 21 with a flurry of public statements as it sought to fend off a wave of criticism from the local Catholic clerics.
In a rare show of government-coordinated response, the government also deployed key parliamentary leaders and politicians to downplay concerns raised by the bishops.
Some politicians told off the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops claiming that the clergy never raised a finger during the regime of retired President Uhuru Kenyatta.
This is the first time since the last election that Catholic clerics have clashed with the government over what the bishops called an unprecedented culture of lies by the state and public officers.
In a no-holds-barred statement on Thursday, the Catholic Church warned that the country was heading in the wrong direction and called for an end to the raging abductions allegedly by the state security agencies.
