Neno Evangelism Center presiding Pastor James Ng’ang’a has dared the government to arrest him as debate on regulation of churches rages on.
Ng’ang’a said the government should come for all the religious leaders it perceives as rogue, him included.
“I did not go to school but my phone receives money. The government should come for you and they will come, let them come for you and me included. Come and arrest us it is too much now,” he said.
He called out preachers who are milking money from their followers to stop the habit.
Ng’ang’a, who is out of the country, said that when he lands in Kenya, he should find police at the airport waiting to arrest him.
He said his church has nothing to do with starving and killing people.
“We don’t practice that in our church, you can come with biscuits and eat, is it a must to eat? Even if I tell you not to eat, do you have the faith to withstand that?” he posed.
“In Jerusalem, you eat tea and two toasts in the morning and evening and if you are sick there is a kiosk you can eat. Eat because it is your stomach and you are praising your own God not mine,” he said.
The church has come under scrutiny after followers of Pastor Paul Mackenzie of the Good News International Church started turning up dead in Kilifi.
The preacher is suspected to have persuaded his congregants to starve to death in order to ascend to heaven.
Police are currently exhuming bodies and rescuing survivors in his 800-acre piece of land in Shakahola forest, Kilifi County.
So far, close to 100 bodies have been recovered from shallow graves in the forest.
On Thursday, Pastor Ezekiel of New Life Prayer Centre and Church was arrested over the alleged indoctrination of the public.
Coast Regional Commissioner Rhodah Onyancha said there were allegations of deaths reported on his premises.
Police said the move to summon him on Wednesday was prompted by the ongoing exhumation of bodies from pastor Mackenzie’s farm in Shakahola Forest.
