Kenyans have reacted after Pastor Dorcas Gachagua claimed that Kenya’s economy is doing badly because thousands of men are in prison.
According to Mrs Gachagua, men are key in economic progress and the thousands of men languishing in jail are the reason why Kenya’s economy is in the pits.
Speaking on Wednesday in Kiambu, Pastor Dorcas said that drugs and alcohol abuse are sending men to prison where they constitute over 90 per cent of the population in the correctional facilities. She insisted that urgent intervention needs to be done.
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“The other ones are in the bars where they say that it is good, wines and spirits. Few come even to the house of the Lord. They are full of wines and spirits not with the spirit of God.”
According to Ms Rigathi, boys and men have become regulars in drug dens, bars, prisons and hospital wards because of accidents caused by drunk driving.
“Even when there is parents day, you only find women, church meetings, women. And you have not asked yourselves what is eating what. How is it when you go to parent’s day and the parents are women? When you call any gathering, it’s women. You get them (men) in the dens they are drunk, and they are like zombies all of them.”
That’s when she said that the men who drugs lead to men in prison affecting the economy badly.
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“The next place you are going to find them is prisons. I have been there, they are full there, 80 per cent, in fact, 90 per cent behind bars. Out of 61,000 inmates, about 58,000 are men. The potentials of this nation are behind bars and you ask yourself why the economy is doing badly, of course, that is one of the reasons.”