Days after angry residents burnt down a church in Meru, new details have emerged after the police conducted their investigations into the incident that went viral.
According to the police report accessed by NewsProjector, the East African Pentecostal churches of Kenya- Kianjai branch in Meru County was burnt down by residents over reports of indecency.
Reports indicate that the arson incident was taken by locals after reports about one Pastor Daniel Mururu was said to be using the church to coerce his female congregants to engage in sexual indecent acts in the church.
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“The Pastor allegedly has been ordering stripping naked of women and girls, shaving their pubic hairs, sucking their breasts and having sex with the said women and girls in the church.”
Residents said enough is enough when another report alleged that a minor aged 17 had also fallen prey to the pastor’s theatrics and is already five months pregnant. Additionally, older women were not safe either. Twenty three witnesses backed the report with the damning revelations.
“More than seven women aged between seventeen (17) years and seventy (70) years further alleges 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.”
Further, the report reveals that the church elders were also part of the indecency with investigations suggesting that the pastor, together with church elders have been allegedly running a cult that has been manipulating their followers into engaging in heinous acts.
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This comes after initial reports indicated that the arson incident was as a result of a land dispute between the church and the locals with residents adding that church leaders threatened congregants with “sickness and barrenness in case they defy the Pastor’s orders and prophesies.”