Huyu guka amenimaliza lol!
By Kimani Gatiba
An elder at a local church in
Naivasha has been
suspended after his phone
rang with a lewd ringtone in
the middle of a sermon last
Sunday.
The elder’s phone, which is
said to have been in the inner
pocket of his tightly buttoned
coat, led to a prolonged
disruption before he could
reach it.
“He disrupted the sermon for
a considerably long time as
he struggled to reach for his
ringing phone,” said one
member of the congregation.
Innuendo
Those present said the
discordant ringtone consisted
of sexual innuendos, which
left most of them heads bent
with embarrassment due to
the presence of children.
“It is understandable that at
times one might forget to
switch off their mobile
phones during a church
service but all the same,
Mugithi ringtones are
unacceptable in the church,”
said a senior pastor.
The Mugithi ringtone the
pastor was referring to, is a
corruption of secular Kikuyu
compositions whereby some
of the words in the original
compositions are substituted
with sexual expletives.
“It is shameful, especially in
the house of the Lord,”
added the shocked pastor.
It also turned out that the
said elder’s integrity has been
questioned in the recent past,
but the church had not
received any concrete
evidence about the negative
things mentioned about him.
TULIA.........UFUNZWE!