Former Mukurweini constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Kabando wa Kabando wants the National Prayer Breakfast banned.
Speaking during an interview with one of the local TV stations on the night of Wednesday, May 28, 2025, Kabando argued that there is a lot of hypocrisy in the prayer breakfast process.
He faulted the event held at Safari Park Hotel on Wednesday, May 28, terming it a clear conflict between the state and religion.
“What we have seen today is a clear conflict of the state and the religion. We have so many denominations, and today at Safari Park Hotel, what was happening? Do we have to import someone from America to come and preach to us? What about those other religions? Do those other denominations exist? People should have the courage to say this. As a matter of belief, ideology and practice, it is a total abuse of the constitutional space. We are not supposed to have a state religion. I was an MP; I think I went there once, not because I don’t believe in God, but because there is a lot of hypocrisy in this process. The Prayer Breakfast should be banned; let people go pray at their churches,” Kabando said.
Kabando on Ruto’s apology
He went ahead to point out President William Ruto’s apology to Tanzania and Uganda as hypocrisy number one.
He argued that it is the country’s citizens that have been failed and the perpetrators of the recent incident against activists in Tanzania are the ones that should be apologising.
“The fact that the president was apologising – an apology for who? It is our people who have been failed. It is not just Tanzania that should have apologised, but the perpetrators of abductions, who include the state of Kenya, the state of Tanzania and the state of Uganda,” he said.
Ruto apologises
During the National Prayer Breakfast meeting, the Head of State told Gen Z, who since June last year have been critical of his administration over unfulfilled government pledges, that it’s time to build bridges across all generations.
Ruto also extended the apology to the neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda.
“We want to apologise if there is anything to our children; if there is any mistake, we apologise to our neighbours. If there is any mistake that we have made, you know, we want to build the relationship that will make our country great and will take us home and to each and every one of us,” the President said.
