The Mighty Prophet of God Dr.Owuor has been exposed in the most dirty way. The source of his lavish priesthood lifestyle has been revealed but in a most devastating way.
A family is now in state of war with the doomsday prophet over property worth 1.5 billion in Westlands.
Yesterday relatives of a woman claiming ownership of the property said the prophet had dispossessed her through an elaborate scheme initiated in 2005.
They accused the controversial prophet of continuing to pocket millions of shillings in monthly rent from the upscale apartments in what could lift the lid on the financing of Owuor’s flashy ministry.
At the heart of the dispute is a claim that the prophet and senior bishops in his church coerced the woman, identified as Jayne Muthoni, to appoint Owuor’s follower, Lilly Njage, as a co-director in Shaba Investment Limited, the registered owner of the flats.
To wrest the control of the multi-million-shilling property from Owuor, Muthoni’s relatives alleged that their relative was not of sound mind when she authorised Njage to manage her property.
They claimed the woman had been brainwashed and placed under the influence of unidentified drugs that could have caused memory loss.
“We want my sister’s property taken back to her. They forced her to appoint a co-director so that they can take control of the company. They have stolen from her. There is one transaction which I saw and more than Sh700 million was withdrawn from her bank account,” Muthoni’s brother Duncan Njagi said yesterday.
Njagi, who led other family members in storming the building to reclaim ownership, alleged that Owuor also moved into their sister’s palatial home along Riverside Drive and turned it into his private office and nerve centre for his church operations.
The home compound contains a swimming pool in which Owuor ‘dipped’ Raila in 2009. It is claimed that the Riverside home was at one point owned by former Internal Security minister Geoge Saitoti.
The brother revealed that the prophet moved out of the Riverside Drive residence hurriedly a few days ago after the family asked for the return of their sister’s property.
Another property — Dove Court Apartments in Westlands — was also taken over by the church and some rooms turned into bishops’ offices, the family claimed.
Njagi alleged that other rooms at the Dove Court Apartments were rented out and the money generated was used to finance the prophet’s lavish lifestyle.
But Owuor and the church, through lawyer Kimani Watenga, denied there was a plot to deceive Muthoni to surrender her property to the flamboyant prophet who has courted controversy in the past through his contentious prophesies.
He said that Muthoni “voluntarily” appointment Njage, a close friend and church colleague, to help her run the property after she developed “memory problems”.
“The least the family can do to Macharia and the church is to thank them because not a single property in Njage’s name or any other has been transferred to the church,” Watenga said.
Speaking outside her apartment yesterday, Muthoni said she had been defrauded of her property but her relatives whisked her away before she could elaborate.
Alice Macharia, Muthoni’s sister, claimed that a scheme by the church to make Macharia a pauper was choreographed back in 2004 when her sister was ‘forced’ to close down her firm to ‘serve the Lord.’
A year later, she was coerced to appoint Macharia to run the property on grounds that she was unwell, she said.
“We don’t think the memory lapse they are talking about is natural. We believe our sister was forced to take some drugs that made her lose her memory. We are questioning why the church should ask her to appoint another, whom she is not related to, to manage her property,” Macharia said.