My Church Doesn’t Own A Morgue, Pastor Ezekiel Odero Clarifies

 

Pastor Ezekiel Odero has denied claims that his New Life Prayer Centre Ministry owns a morgue where the dead were ferried from the church to the funeral home.

Odero explained that the building perceived to be a mortuary is a facility which hosts transformers and power panels for the church institutions.

The New Life Prayer Centre Pastor blamed the media for misreporting the issue arguing that if the church owned a morgue his more than 40,000 followers would have raised alarm.

“Even if you could build a mortuary,my followers come from far and wide.How can you lie to someone from UK to hold his dead sister in that perceived mortuary,” said Odero.

“We don’t own a mortuary but let’s invite the media to the place to check and verify,”he added.

He was speaking before the Senate Ad Hoc committee investigating the proliferation of religious organizations and Shakahola deaths.

Odero denied claims that the New Life Prayer Centre sanctuary has been hosting sick people awaiting Prayer miracle for healing.

He explained that sick people are allowed within the premises of the church with their representatives.

“We don’t allow sick people without representatives that’s a rule.When sick people come we advise them to go to hospital because we don’t know the hour of death,”Odero noted.

The New Life Prayer Centre lamented that their efforts to invite investigating agencies to set the record straight on the matter has been futile.

“When we invited the investigating agencies to check they never showed up.I don’t think it can be there,”the Pastor stated.

Odero stated that a mortuary situated in Mbogolo past Mavueni in a black spot area, which has no health institutions ,has been linked to his church ministry which is erroneous.

“I think this is the reason why people connected me to it. One day I said how can one build a mortuary minus a clinic.Is it business or safe custody of the dead,”he said.

The 11-member senate ad-hoc committee was formed to investigate the proliferation of churches in the country and the circumstances that led to the deaths of over 350 faithfuls of the church linked to Pastor Mackenzie.

The senators are seeking to establish the registration status of religious institutions in the country and identify the mitigation measures in place to regulate them and combat  extremism.

The Senate committee is expected to carry out an audit of the legal and registration framework for religious organizations in the country.

Consequently, it will develop a legislative proposal on regulating religious activities and make any other recommendation that will prevent religious organizations from extreme indoctrination of their followers including radicalization, spiritual and financial exploitation.     BY CAPITAL  NEWS