Nicole Chepchumba, a 33-year-old Kenyan mother, has spoken candidly about two decades of what she describes as relentless spiritual warfare, a journey that took her from Kenya to Germany and back again before she found what she calls deliverance.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with TUKO.co.ke, Nicole said she left Kenya in March 2016 after her life at home became increasingly difficult.
She went to Europe not as a student but as a bride, having married a European man about 20 years older than her.
A Marriage That Unravelled Quickly
Almost immediately after settling in with her husband, cracks appeared. Online trolls made things worse, with social media captions mocking her with lines like “How I mistreat my white husband,” comments she said were deeply unfair.
“How can you mistreat someone who treats you like a wife and child at the same time?” she said. The negativity spilt into her marriage, and the couple went back and forth before finally separating. She later moved to Belgium with a new partner.
Her lowest point came when she was detained at a border crossing during a holiday trip. Authorities, believing she might be a minor, placed her in a room fitted with children’s furniture.
A psychiatrist she spoke to there concluded she was not in a fit state to travel, and Nicole ended up receiving psychological support twice a week for an extended period.
By 2018, she had enrolled in school and was working on improving her language skills to qualify for a caregiving course.
Nicole Chepchumba spiritual warfare
Nicole described years of disturbed sleep, vivid nightmares and what she believes were supernatural presences in her home.
After confiding in Pastor T Mwangi, she was told that certain habits and objects she had in her home were opening spiritual doors she had not anticipated. The pastor warned her she was in a spiritual battle and that her life could be in danger.
She recounted two near-miss incidents in Europe, once nearly struck by a tram and another time by a car that mounted the pavement, events she and her pastor linked to what he described as “numbered days.”
When Nicole returned to Kenya in 2023, she prayed over her family home and anointed the grounds with red wine and olive oil. Shortly after, her brother, while tilling the farm, struck something buried in the soil.
Her mother later found a missing cooking pot she recognised from years earlier. Inside it was a container holding a piece of paper on which family members’ names were listed in what appeared to be a curse, allegedly placed there by a deceased aunt.
“There was a lot ot withchraft peraphenalia,” she stated. The names included Nicole’s mother and two of her brothers, each seemingly assigned a fate. Nicole said that discovery confirmed everything her pastor had warned her about.
She credits persistent prayer and her Christian faith with seeing her through what she describes as 20 years of attacks that followed her across two continents.
