Roots Party presidential candidate George Wajackoyah has urged the church to stop judging him and his running mate Justina Wamae over his manifesto of legalising weed if elected the president.
Speaking during an interview on Citizen TV, Wajackoyah said he has often been bashed by the church for ‘ruining a generation’ but he is a prayerful person who loves God.
“We don’t have a problem with the church. The church is ganging up against me telling me I’m ruining their children. Let me tell them to go back to the Bible and read it very correctly. They should find out why Israel, where God came from, has never abolished hemp,” he said.
Adding: “I’m praying, because I’m a prayerful person who loves God, that we get elected and enable Kenyans put food on the table and build churches, and that the only communication they have between them and God is that Bible or Quran so that somebody can pray to God personally instead of being victimized by these so-called pastors, some of them.”
Prof. Wajackoyah dismissed criticism from some church leaders who he claimed were critical of his ambitions as president as “pretense,” claiming that the church had been getting proceeds of corruption as contributions.
“Let them find out why they accept money every Sunday which has come from evil and they don’t condemn it. Let some of these pastors not be judgemental because God will judge them very very harshly,” said Wajackoyah.
Ms. Wamae on her part even directed Kenyans to read some Bible excerpts which she argues form the basis of her and Wajackoyah’s stance on marijuana.
“Let them read Genesis 1:12, and Ezekiel 34 and 29; it is there that herb that God gave Israelites when they were in slavery to give them food and status, it is there so please read your Bible,” she said.
