In Summary
- Controversial Kenyan Televangelist Gilbert Deya Dies In Grisly Road Accident.
- In 2023, Deya was acquitted of child trafficking charges.
- Deya’s wife was jailed in 2011 after she was found guilty of stealing a baby at a city hospital.
Controversial Kenyan Televangelist Gilbert Juma Deya has died in a grisly road accident along the Kisumu-Bondo road.
According to sources, a trailer lost its breaks and rammed into Deya’s fuel guzzler ending his life on the spot.
“Miracle Babies” Saga
Gibert Deya gained prominence in the late 90s and the early 2000s running his ministry, Gilbert Deya Ministries which he claimed was capable of aiding infertile women conceive through prayer.
Earlier, he was a mason who found his way in Britain and ran a church in London.
Women at his London church who had trouble with conceiving babies were given hopes of conceiving “Miracle Babies”.
However, the babies were an act of a wide scheme of child trafficking in Nairobi, Kenya targeting underprivileged families.
After being exposed in 2004 through a BBC investigation, Deya switched base to Scotland where he was arrested in Edinburgh in 2006 following an international arrest warrant issued by Kenya.
Despite his child trafficking charges, he was finally acquitted on 17, July 2023 after a decade-long court battle.
The prosecution had failed to prove that he stole five children two decades ago and trafficked them to barren women.
During his acquittal, Deya asserted that he had forgiven his detractors who were determined to seeing him serve time in behind bars.
Additionally, Deya shared his gratitude while hinting on going back to the UK from where it all started.
In 2011, Deya’s then wife, Mary Deya was imprisoned after being found guilty of stealing a baby from a city hospital.
Subsequently, she had lied of having given birth to the baby.
