Nyamira residents have been caution joining newly founded denominations and cults before scrutinizing their authenticity.
The Principal who was flanked by area chief revealed that 11 people who travelled from Nyagacho village to join the cult in the coast region have not returned to their home and their whereabouts is not known.
Speaking at Nyagacho village during the funeral of two pupils who perished in a local quarry, Riokindo High School Principal, Gerald Orina, said that religion is good only when it is not misused.
“God created man in His own image and commanded him to worship Him in truth and spirit with respect to the preservation of lives instead of killing them,” he said.
The Principal condemned the mass death associated with Pr. Paul Mackenzie’s cult at Shakahola in Kilifi.
“Some of those people were great men who abandoned their employment in Nairobi and travelled to Kilifi to worship in the strange cult,” he said.
The Principal advised parents to monitor their children and know the type of friends they walk around with because of most the character deviations are caused by peer influence.
He asked churches to design programmes that are attractive to the youth in order to lead them to the mainstream church and cushion them from being religiously gullible.
Saying that poverty and desire to be free from it causes waywardness to both the youth and the old, the principal asked parents to invest more in the provision of quality education to their children as the only way of escaping from the vicious circle of poverty.
By Enock Okong’o
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