Pastors call for prayers for families of Garissa massacre victims


Mahikeng Ministers Fellowship has called on believers assembling for Good Friday and Passover celebrations to remember families of the 147 students killed,those injured during the Garissa University massacre and the Kenyan nation in their prayers.

“We wish to condemn in the strongest terms possible the henious act of terrorism and extremism that have cast a dark cloud over Kenya,” Chairperson of MMF(an interdenominational pastors fellowship),Apostle Zandisile Reginald Mpame said.

In conveying condolences to the families of those killed and wishing  scores of those injured a speedy recovery, Apostle Mpame said that those behind atrocities represent evil which has no place in civilised societies.

“In remembering a nation that is in mourning,we should denounce sectarian violence, hatred and rededicate ourselves to pray for peace across the continent, intercede for the lost, the hopeless and the helpless,”Mpame highlighted. 

Kenyan authorities said that though around 500 to 815 students have been accounted,hundreds remain missing in the aftermath of the seige during which four attackers were killed.

They have identified a possible mastermind of the attack as Mohammed Mohamud also known by the names Dulyadin and Gamadhere.

Mohamud who is alleged to lead Al Queda-linked terror group Al-Shabaab’s cross-border raids into Kenya was a teacher at an Islamic religious school, or madrassa.

He had claimed responsibility for a bus attack in Makka, Kenya, in November that killed 28 people.A $220,000 bounty has been posted for him.

Kenyan police statistics reportedly that 312 people have been killed in Al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya from 2012 to 2014. Thirty-eight people were killed and 149 wounded in Garissa in the same period.