Ida Odinga Apologizes After Remarks on Regulation of Churches Cause a Stir
ODM leader Raila Odinga’s wife Ida Odinga has apologized for her remarks on the regulation of churches.
Ida caused a stir after she urged the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) to regulate churches and weed out those not run by trained evangelists.
“We want Kenyans to subscribe to religions that are formally registered and not those whose belief systems are commodified. It is also important that we conduct training for all those who minister the word of God,” Ida was quoted.
She was speaking during the launch of the Christian Book by Archbishop Emeritus Habbakuk Abogno in Kisumu on Saturday.
In a statement on Monday, Ida withdrew her remarks, saying that her position on the training of preachers was blown out of context by the media reports circulating online
“It has come to my realization that my comments haven’t sat well with some members of the church. I sincerely apologize for the discomfort caused as I meant no harm to any person,” reads the statement.
Ida stressed that she is a committed believer in Jesus Christ and is dedicated to promoting the growth of the church for a better Kenyan society.
“I reiterate that training only makes the service of preaching better and promotes the ministration of the word of God. As a committed believer in Jesus Christ, I understand that preaching is a calling and anyone can be touched to administer the word of God. This is a fact I have appreciated for a long time and I have sat and listened to many preachers eloquently and diligently deliver life-changing sermons,” she adds.
Comments (39)
She is right! Too many fake churches!
It's satan's DIVIDE and RULE tactics. This is Why I don't Go to Church nowadays. I just Live by Faith; and LOVING my Neighbors; obeying the Greatest COMMANDMENT of GOD. NB:Many of these Preachers have No calling; they're Fake, Imposters, and Busy bodies. Especially those that Travel from Nigeria to Prey on Kenyan women (in the name of Praying for them Women looking for Husbands). And these Stupid women Believe them.
@ Guest1 how come when I said I dont go to church you castigated me?
@formerly guest 2, you took words out of my mouth.
No need to apologize Ida. We need to weed out all those foreign churches spreading white jesus message aka white supremacy and those stealing from their flocks calling it tithing. But first lets start with those in bed with one conman called William Samoei Ruto;those churches enabling him to unload his loot for sanitization.
Precisely! Just look at Ruto’s white teeth telling lies in every occasion he enters the house of God! The man has no shame to lie like a Devil incarnate! Now he says asifiwe Ruto in low breath!
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Too late to bottle the jini
Which nini! There was no nini in the first place! She shouldn’t have recanted because everything she said was the truth! Too many untrained fake preachers out there speaking baloney!
You might be right but can the world sys regulate faith matters? Will Raila have to ask waganga what church is real? Know the word. Let bible prophecy on false ministers come to pass. Let wheat and rates grow until harvest. Only communist can regulate but communist belief is that govt is God. Communist is all about control. Shetani ashindwe
Rwanda did it. We too can and should.
All foreign religions whose followers participated in "slave trade" and responsible for the physical and emotional/mental agony of Africans in Africa and diaspora should all be outlawed.
I am in support of your comments Prime Minister wife. We are sick of 310s plus this character whereby so individuals wake up one day start healing power ministry. Go get so training fox's
I don't see the wrong she did. Truth be told be told churches are kiosks in Kenya with aim of making money. That's why they celebrate politicians when they come
Speaking like a layman,I am curious why preachers would need training to spread the world of God. To suggest otherwise is an acknowledgement of their "intellectual limitation..."Is it not clear what Christians are required of them? If not, just following the 10 commandments would be half the knowledge needed,in my opinion.
The flock should also be encouraged to think critically and just not follow blindly.
This maxiley is always confused and out of touch with so many things! Where does he live? Some ghetto some place!?
He now wants to explain this topic and he has never been near a church or visited any other place worshippers gather! Now just wait he will be here commenting about what I just said! The guy is confused!
The first time I agree with max. The flock refuse to search scripture on their own. A person who knows scripture will not be deceived. Govt must not oversee training of any faith leaders. God anoints His ministers. Edu helps obviously. Raila can regulate waganga his friends
Wisdom detected from yours truly, Maxiley.
This is but just a tip of the iceberg. One could have assumed that Ida come up with this out of nowhere. It’s coming out as one of the many warnings to face the country should she be the First Lady.
No body want to hear the truth these days! Of course there are several untrained thieves who commodify the word of God for material gains! Where is Kanyari?
You don’t teach something you have not been trained to do! Kenya got too many fake preachers who have turned out to cons! It has become difficult to believe a preacher on the pulpit these days!
They need to be regulated, trained and certified to avoid confusing those who don’t know any better! And there many confused folks out there - both illiterates and educated! And in between!
I think mama Ida is right on this one!
Who are the true preachers now we know who the fake ones are? I thought that the moment you preach that the saints rose from their graves when Jesus passed on, that is already fake. Because if they rose from their graves, did they return to their graves soon after or they are now alive forever!!!
Yes you are a laymen alright! You should not be speaking because you don’t know! How do you know 10 commandments existed if you have not read them?
Please lay off what you are smoking. My comment relates to the need for teaching preachers.I say no need. What has that go to do with my reading 10 commandments?
She is right. Pastors need some kind of formal training just as Imams in major cities with large congregations are generally to have formally studied Islam in a theological school and have displayed leadership in the community. Too many criminals operating as pastors on Kenyan churches!!!
Church members should be taught there are 613 laws not only tithe and first fruit. Everybody collecting tithe have to do DNA test to show how their grandfather was Aaron. That the law in the old testament.
Wow! 613 laws. I bet the wanton slaying of their enemies like the Amalekites and the Canaanites is part of the 613 laws. F Aaron or Moses or whoever.
There is meat where sycophancy exists....and when rivalry exists, the grass suffers. Ida's pockets must have shrunk with babasy sycophancy shrinking... Churches are dipping their dirty fingers in the loot that went ...you know where....
I think our future First Lady was way off on this one. We have freedom of worship in Kenya and government should play no role in the regulation of spiritual matters. My family and I pray to trees and the forces of nature. Is she telling me that trees, wind, rain, sleet, or tornados should be regulated?
Imagine trying to restrict religion while Raila is hanging out at uganga lounge at night. Some are out on the street witching and bewitching
No no Bobby. She ain't asking for regulation of your god, whatever it be, but of proliferation of the messengers. For me all the messengers are pilferers for as long as they preach the religion that keeps us subservient.
@Soldieron: I agree with you wholeheartedly that is the reason my family and I find comfort in thunder, lightening, snow, sleet, hurricanes etc instead of the likes of Pastor Ng'ang'a or even that itinerant Jewish carpenter guy who roamed the earth with 12 jobless men.
Lol. Lost as a goose Bobby. God has power over all those stuff you worship. Imagine you can pee on snow god and it melts.
Some Churches have membership fees. Come on people! Church have been made into membership clubs like gym or golf club.
More of the reason why I avoid churches like a plague. Churches in Kenya are clubs for all sorts of things.
Dada @ formerly guest 2:
Uliandika, "...More of the reason why I avoid churches like plague." Mambo yote uliyoyasema ni ya kweli kabisa. Nami, sina budi kukuunga mkono kwa dhati.
Why apologize? They do need regulated and fakes jailed.
Stupid Stupid black brainwashed Africans.Christianity/Islam was never our religion.Both was Brought to us yet we hate each other because of this foreign stupid religions.Sisi nimanyangao mafi ya kuku n we will forever b controlled by them divide n rule n their gods.
@Mkenya Halisi expose the fallacy .Yes, why should we accept mzungu's religion on the basis of his words alone?Like I said else where, our african religions serve the same purpose mzungus religion does. Just because he had a bigger gun,and sprinkled afew trinkets to greedy chiefs is no reason to abscond the religion of our ancestors. Again I say, it is very arrogant of mzungu to say that our religions are "inferior" and that his is the true religion. There is no proof what so everthat our religion is inferior. If I broke my leg now, no religion will perform a miracle to make my leg well again. Not only me, the sinner. even if the Holy father, the pope broke his leg, prayers wont heatl it. All those miracles we read about Jesus performing cannot be proven.Just ask yourself why they are not happening now?
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hehehe very true @Maxiley I like when u give this example of the leg??Wr so much brainshed to an extent we don’t believe in ourselves as Africans.Ask yourself since then the Christianity was brainwashed in us wr still poor n messed up mentally which served the colonialism n the so called church(Christianity).We could have kept our African Gods whether they r in that mugumo(Fig tree) the luhya God etc n the Gikuyu God who still lives up in the mount Kenya
there are too many self appointed bishops , prophets etc it is a business some are run by husband and wife as (bishop and prophetess or pastor) . i agree with Ida belief is a matter of choice but most of the poor folk who cannot read the bible are manipulated by the so called bishops / priest or whatever name the give themselves i changed to nishireni daishoni buddism and
i love it . many gods and no money issues and the teaching is about love and acceptance and being good here on earth to others