CLERGY  APPEALS TO GOVERNMENT TO ACT ON SWINE FLU.

By Agwanda Jakorandoh
   
 THE Government has been urged to step up measures in screening all visitors entering the country to ascertain their health status on the Swine flu virus.
 
The Head of Holy Ghost Coptic Church of Africa His Holyness Father John Pesa 1 said that it is now high time for the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation to step up Screening activities to all visitors entering the country both at International Airports and major borders.
 
Speaking to the Press at the Church Headquarters in Kisumu yesterday barely a day after the first case of the dreaded disease is reported in Kenya where a 20-year-old student from the United Kingdom was diagonised with the H1 N1 flu in Kisumu, the Clergy said that the Police together with health experts should now be fully deployed in major entry points in the country so as to carry out security check and  proper screening to all visitors.
 
The student together with 33 others have been on a medical camp in the lake side city of Kisumu for a period of time.
 
Father Pesa has also appealed to  all the denominations in the country to  come together and conduct prayers for the disease not to invade the country with impunity.
 
At the same time,  the clergy, who is also the Spiritual Leader and founder of the church has claimed that his life is in danger following various death threats messages he has been receiving via his mobile phone.
 
Father Pesa claims that he has been receiving various messages threatening his life through his cell phone since January this year while adding that the last message he received on June 24 this year.
 
He said that the death threats messages have been sent by unknown people, adding that he has recorded a statement with the police in Kisumu City to investigate the matter.
 
The Church leader has now appealed to the Nyanza Police Chief Antony Kibuchi to take up the matter seriously and investigate it thoroughly.
 
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