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President William Ruto and Bishop Edward Mwai of Jesus Winner Ministry Roysambu Church on March 02, 2025. [PCS]
I was having a conversation with a friend and the question emerged: Do people of faith observe the Decalogue strictly in daily life? Let us speak plainly fellow sinners, for the sake of our Sovereign Republic. Every five years we gather at the altar of democracy, chant campaign slogans and then wonder why the sky falls the moment the winner is sworn in.
Prices spike. Roads remain half-built. Youth riots. Debts balloon like a politician’s belly at a harambee. And the prophets of doom on social media and in church WhatsApp groups cry judgement. But what if the judgement is self-inflicted? What if the real culprit is not the system, not Western nor globalist interests, not even tribalism, but the quiet, cheerful violation of the very first line in the Decalogue: Thou shalt have no other gods before me?
Because in Kenya, money is god. Not metaphorically. Literally. And the joke is older than our republic. Money is said to have been named after Juno Moneta, the Roman goddess of warning and advice. This connection came about because the first Roman mint was located in her temple on the Capitoline Hill in Rome.
