A 61-year-old woman is recuperating at the Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital after suffering injuries at the hands of a self-proclaimed pastor claiming to have been ‘delivering’ her from illness at Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums in Nairobi.
The said man of the cloth, identified as Daniel Muriithi, is alleged to have been inserting his arms and hands into the woman’s private parts and extracting some of her internal organs, a process that led to a huge loss of blood.
The woman who hails from Kisii County was reportedly taken to the self-declared pastor for healing by her children after being in pain for a long period of time.
“Alikuwa ameingizwa mkono kwa sehemu yake ya siri ametolewa nyama…damu ilikuwa inatoka kama maji, imejaa kwa beseni, so mama alikuwa kwa hii nyumba for one week anafanyiwa deliverance,” said Kate Nyambura, an area resident.
The incident was reported to the area chief after one of the village elders, Dominic Ndungu, heard vicious cries coming from the rogue preacher’s house.
Ndungu explained that he went into the house and found the pastor naked, as the woman lay unconscious on the bed.
He said he then questioned Muriithi about the basins containing blood and what resembled body organs.
“Wakati niliingia pale ndani, nikapata mzee anaitwa pastor Muriithi hana nguo, nikauliza na hii damu iko hapa chini ni ya nini na hizi nyama ninaona hapa na ule mama naona pale kwa kitanda ni nini? Na huyu pastor akaniambia huyu ni mgonjwa na alikuwa amekuja hapa nimfanyie deliverance,” narrated Ndungu.
Mukuru Kwa Njenga residents have since urged Kenyans to be cautious amidst the rise of many different religious denominations and rogue pastors.
