Media is a great platform to air views because its carries the attention of a great audience. Though at times nasty things do happen on air, misinterpreted information gets to be put clear there. TV presenters at times find themselves in tricky situations mostly when politicians are involved and they don’t want to be defeated on air.
Annoyed Citizen TV anchor, Yvonne Okwara has of late been attacking politicians who she feel are not dong right. She called out Nakuru Senator Susan Kihika for uttering what she termed as inappropriate words during a church service.
Okwara was giving her take on the TV show, News Gang about why religious leaders should be careful when giving politicians opportunities to speak at church altars. She defined a church pulpit as a sacred place and a point of contact with the heavens and sometimes, politicians defiled it with their utterances.
Yvonne made reference to Senator Kihika’s remarks during the heat of the Murathe – Ruto fall out, where the politician stated, “An opinion is like an asshole, everybody has one. Kwa hivo tuwache kila mtu wachwe alete their own opinion.” Okwara believed that the senator should have been aware of the setting and used a better way to communicate her message.
She particularly highlighted the verse that was behind Kihika, Mathew 3:16 that read “As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.”
Referring to Senator Kihika’s slur, the hard-hitting news presenter commented: “I don’t want to imagine what the heavens thought of those words.” Yvonne praised Reverend Grace Wandithia of a church in Banana, Kiambu County for blocking Jubilee MPs from expressing political views in her church.
Reverend Grace Wandithia stated that it was the church’s policy not to let the politicians speak openly to the church; “What we normally do is that if there is any information they want to give to the congregation, it is not in the alter or inside the church. Maybe they do it outside the church. When we are doing services we just restrict them. They don’t speak how they want.”