Senate Speaker Amason Kingi has said that the National Prayer Breakfast is a show of the way united parliamentarians are, despite representing humans from numerous backgrounds.
In his opening comments, Kingi said it symbolises how the legislators are united in serving the people, in addition to their need for God’s help in service to the human beings.
“Through this initiative, we as Parliamentarians confirm that, beyond the range of political opinion that we ascribe to and the different shades that represent our political camps, we remain one excellent group targeted on serving the people of Kenya and acknowledging our want for God to execute this mandate,” the Speaker stated.
Kingi referred to as at the elected leaders to look to it that the reflections of the prayer breakfast are not most effective confined to a one-day engagement in a year.
He stated the beliefs behind the National Prayer Breakfast ought to also make them ambassadors of peace on the grassroots.
“The noble intentions and patriotic ideals at the back of the National Prayer Breakfast must encourage us to be more than just leaders representing and articulating the interest of voters right here in Nairobi,” Kingi said.
“We have to now decorate the mantle of ambassadors of peace, team spirit and reconciliation at the grassroots as we engage with the people we constitute.”
The Senate Speaker brought that Parliamentary Diplomacy need to continuously find expression inside the each day undertakings of elected leaders.
“We need to use every possibility to rally our people to stay in harmony, continue to be regulation-abiding and dedicated to state-building. That, too, is our calling as elected leaders,” he said.
The Senate is the reliable host of the twenty first National Prayer Breakfast. It is themed “Hope”.
Last 12 months, it changed into hosted with the aid of the National Assembly.
Kingi said this yr, they seek to build on the gains of closing yr’s Prayer breakfast.
The event accords leaders an opportunity to fellowship and destroy bread; replicate at the affairs of the country; and re-ignite faith in the Almighty God.