Kisumu Governor Prof Anyang Nyong’o has said he will join priesthood to continue from where his late father left his spiritual work.
According to Nairobi News, the governor said he will enrol at St Paul’s University to study Theology as the first step in actualizing that dream.
Nyong’o made the revelation while eulogizing his late mother Dorka Owino Nyong’o who was buried on Saturday (15.06.19) in Seme, Kisumu County.
Mama Dorka was until her death a deaconess in the Anglican Church of Kenya. According to Prof Nyong’o, his mother always wanted him to inherit his father’s church posting as a canon.
He, however, admitted that he has always been reluctant to heed the church calling. “Allow me, ladies and gentlemen, for God’s sake and in honour of my late mother to declare before you that as from next month I will enrol for the priesthood,” Prof Nyong’o told the mourners.
“My mother always tried to prevail upon me and asked me whether I would be ready to step in the footsteps of my father. But I have rejected her idea. I always told her… not me,” he further revealed.
Prof Nyong’o who is the father to Kenyan Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong’o went on to add that there was no greater love to show his deceased parents than that of joining the priesthood.
