Go Slow On Kenyans: Clergy Tells Government over Directive to Deny Services Unvaccinated Citizens

Uasin Gishu Gospel Ministers chairperson Bishop Wilson Kurui has asked the Ministry of Health to go slow on directive seeking to bar unvaccinated Kenyans from accessing key services.

The government has already said Kenyans who are yet to be vaccinated will not be allowed to access its services, physically, and want players in the hotel, transport, and other service providers to implement the same.

But according to Bishop Kurui, blocking Kenyans from traveling using public service, getting into public parks, supermarkets among other public places for not being vaccinated amounts to discrimination.

Bishop Kurui.

In a phone interview with Uasin Gishu News, the Jesus Love Ministry Bishop said the government should give Kenyans more time, before bringing in stringent measures to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Vaccination is a new thing, and people need to be given time. It even took time for wearing masks and keeping social distance to be fully implemented. For now, we need to focus on adhering to the already measures Kenyans are used to as we slowly educate and sensitize them on being vaccinated,” said Bishop Kurui.

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The clergy said as religious leaders, they are not opposed to the directive asking unvaccinated people not to be given key services.

He, however, said the government should not use force to have people vaccinated.

“It should not be like they are forcing people and for me, it will be discrimination to block someone from coming to my church just because he/she has not been vaccinated,” said Bishop Wilson Kurui.

A Kenyan woman being vaccinated.

The Bishop also called on the government to ensure there are sufficient vaccination centers, and vaccines closer to mwananchi.

He pointed out that there have been cases of people going to health facilities seeking the vaccine only to be told that it was not available.

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“People also have preferences, now that the Covid-19 vaccines are several. One may be preferring a vaccine that is now available at that moment, and these are things we need to look at how to address them,” said the Uasin Gishu Gospel Ministers chairperson.

So far, only 7.3 percent of the Kenyan population has been fully vaccinated – representing 3.93 million people, while 9.57 million have been given the first dose.

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