By Collins Wanzallah
Police in Tigania West are linking an arson attack in the area to anger by locals over indecency acts practised by a local pastor. Police are carrying out more investigations on the alleged arson according to police occurrence book (OB) number 21/26/08/2024 which was reported at 1826 hrs through DCI Tigania West inquiry No. 3 and dated September 02, 2024.
It stated, “Please be informed that preliminary investigations have established that the arson incident was not as a result of a land dispute as earlier suspected, but the same was as a result of anger by the local community against the East African Pentecostal churches of Kenya—Kianjai branch Pastor one Daniel Mururu, church elders, and the church ushers conducts (behavior).”
I added that the pastor allegedly had been ordering stripping naked women and girls, shaving their pubic hairs, sucking their breasts, and having sex with the said women and girls in the church. The orders according to the OB report were being executed by the church elders and ushers.
According to the OB report, 23 witnesses have recorded statements whereby one girl aged about 17 years who is in Form 3 at Kamitongu Secondary School has allegedly been defiled and she is five months pregnant.
“More than seven women aged between seventeen years old and seventy-70 years old further allege to have fallen victim to the pastor and his church elders, whereby they were indecently assaulted by sucking their breasts, shaving their pubic hairs, and inserting fingers into their private parts,” the OB read further.
The DCI investigators have further established that the pastor and the elders of the said church are running a cult whereby they have been radicalizing their followers.
They discovered that the church leadership was compelling, inducing and causing them to engage in indecent acts for fear that the followers would fall by calamities like sickness and barrenness in case they defied the pastor’s orders and prophecies.
