THE CHURCH STANDS ACCUSED

The Christian church, historically, has made it's contribution to the general welfare of mankind, particularly, through moral teachings based on the Bible, which have to a large extent helped temper human excesses, but it would be foolhardy to assume that everything done in the name of the church by it's officials is clean and infallible. The Catholic church through some of it's officials has for long been associated with antisemitism and during the Nazi German, it was alleged that Pope Pius XII didn't act judiciously enough, otherwise, the millions of lives lost among the Jews and Gypsies during the Holocaust would have been saved. And it's highly doubtful that Jesus Christ, anyway, would have approved  the early Crusades and Inquisitions that resulted in deaths of millions of people in the name of spreading his Gospel.
The colonialists introduced Christianity in Africa, not so much as to help us become better human beings, but as a demonstration that what they were offering in form of religion was spiritually and culturally superior to what we had practiced for generations, which however,  we  know is utter rubbish. Otherwise, if they indeed believed that all human beings are equal in the eyes of God, according to the Gospel of Christ, then they wouldn't have sold us into slavery or made us their servants against our will.
Later on, during the Mau Mau war of liberation, it was clearly demonstrated by the colonial administrators and their African Christian assistants that there is no such thing as mercy to anybody who was seen as a  non-believer and a sympathizer to those who were agitating for freedom. In Central, Nairobi and some parts of Eastern province where protestant Christianity was taking root and where Mau Mau activity was most intense, people were ruthlessly brutalized by the new African Christian administrators and sold out to the authorities. When President Kenyatta took the reins of power in 1963, he surrounded himself with the former African colonial administrators who were invariably protestant church followers. 
The National Christian Churches (NCCK) has its  core affiliate churches drawn from the protestant churches and it was obviously clear to all when it kept studiously silent even when the Kenyatta regime was involved unethical actions. However, for reasons only best known to NCCK, some its Secretary Generals' such as Rev Samuel Kobia and Rev Mutava Musyimi started to show some political activism in support of the public that was opposed to the excesses of President Moi's regime. However, once President Kibaki took over, all seemed to be quite in the NCCK corner, despite several scandals that at least begged for condemnation, until the referendum debate when they seemed to go against the grain by opposing the will of  majority  Kenyans, who had expressed willingness to embrace change.
The church in Kenya stands accused because it failed to support us during the liberation struggle for independence, to clearly use its position and authority to condemn the excesses of our post-colonial regimes and finally to oppose a constitution that promises so much hope as we move away from the vestiges of colonial administration. However, one can't help but sympathize with their present position because the new constitution promises a renewal and revitalization of African culture which was bastardized by the colonialists and their present agents represented by the Christian church. To paraphrase, Margaret Thatcher (Lady Thatcher), the Christian Church should now realize that the African is no longer for turning!