RELIGIOUS LEADERS CONVENE THE 4TH NATIONAL DIALOGUE CONFERENCE TO REVIEW REPORTS PRESENT ED TO PARLIAMENT AND ADDRESS ISSUES AFFECTING THE NATION

RELIGIOUS LEADERS CONVENE THE 4TH NATIONAL DIALOGUE CONFERENCE TO REVIEW REPORTS PRESENT ED TO PARLIAMENT AND ADDRESS  ISSUES AFFECTING THE NATION

By Brenda Asugu.
Religious Leaders drawn from the National Council of Churches of Kenya(NCCK), the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Supreme council of Kenya Muslims,convened the 4th National Dialogue Conference  at Ufungamano House over the last two daysin Nairobi.
The goal of the 4th National Dialogue Conference was to review the report presented to Parliament by the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) as well as the attendant Parliamentary Bills and the two third Gender rule.
The  delegates pointed out issues affecting the country currently and urged the government to find solution to help curb the situation .Some of the issues includes  flood menace which has claimed the lives of 200 Kenyans.
 However the religious leaders are mobilizing worshippers in their congregations to collect relief materials to share with the affected families during this time .
PHOTO : National Council of Churches of Kenya NCCK Secretary General Canon Chris Kinyanjui.

The Team called  upon the national and county governments, as well as the medical workers, to engage in genuine and meaningful dialogue to bring the suffering of Kenyans to an end."we restate that the religious leaders are ready and willing to mediate in the dialogue process"
The National Religious leaders have called on the Kenya Kwanza administration to urgently constitute the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
In a communique released at the end of the 4th National Dialogue Conference on Tuesday, the clergy noted that Kenya has gone for 16 months without a properly constituted electoral agency.
“Already, there are two constituencies, Banissa and Lagdera, and four wards; Nyamaiwa, Kisa East, Lakezone, and Chewena without Members of National Assembly and Members of County Assembly respectively," they said in a statement.
The communique was signed by the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) secretary general Chris Kinyanjui, Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (Supkem) secretary general Abdullahi Salat and the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) Simon Peter Kamomoe.

The religious leaders further said the absence of a fully constituted IEBC has the country in a state of a constitutional crisis following the lapse of the deadline for delimitation of boundaries.

“We call upon President William Ruto and all concerned stakeholders to speedily conclude the recruitment of IEBC Commissioners. It would be prudent to separate this process from other political discourse due to the magnitude of the risk that the lack of an IEBC portends to the nation,” they said.
The goal of the meeting was to review the report presented to Parliament by the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) as well as the attendant Parliament

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