MALINDI CLERICS SUPPORT CALLS FOR NATIONAL DIALOGUE

Religious leaders in Malindi have joined calls for an immediate and inclusive national dialogue, warning that Kenya’s deepening political and social challenges demand urgent reconciliation efforts across all sectors of society. The clerics from the Christian, Muslim and Traditional Faiths underscored the importance of intergenerational dialogue, which they said was a fundamental pathway to peace as it could cool the rising political temperatures in the country. Led by Malindi Catholic Bishop Willybard Lagho, the leaders also condemned talks of vote rigging, the abduction and forced disappearance of government critics and excessive use of force by the police against unarmed demonstrators.