{"id":342593,"date":"2017-08-06T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=342593"},"modified":"2017-08-06T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:00:08","slug":"gilbert-deya-miracle-babies-pastor-extradited-to-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=342593","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert Deya: ‘Miracle babies’ pastor extradited to Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK has extradited a self-styled Kenyan pastor, who claimed he created miraculous pregnancies, to Kenya to face child-trafficking charges.<\/p>\n

Gilbert Deya’s extradition came after he failed in his decade-long legal battle to remain in the UK.<\/p>\n

He denied charges of stealing five children between 1999 and 2004 when he appeared in court in Nairobi.<\/p>\n

Concerns were first raised about the conduct of Mr Deya, who ran a church in London, in a BBC investigation in 2004.<\/p>\n

Infertile or post-menopausal women who attended the Gilbert Deya Ministries church in Peckham, south-east London, were told they could have “miracle” babies.<\/p>\n

But the babies were always “delivered” in backstreet clinics in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital.<\/p>\n

Mr Deya later moved to Scotland, and was arrested in Edinburgh in 2006 under an international arrest warrant issued by Kenya.<\/p>\n

His Gilbert Deya Ministries is being investigated by the UK Charity Commission for alleged mismanagement.<\/p>\n

“Our statutory inquiry into Gilbert Deya Ministries is ongoing. We are currently considering the implication of Gilbert Deya’s extradition on our investigation,” the commission said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Gilbert Deya: ‘The Archbishop of Peckham’<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • A former stonemason who moved to London from Kenya in the mid-90s<\/li>\n
  • Set up the Gilbert Deya Ministries as a registered charity, with African and Asian branches<\/li>\n
  • Known for his blend of charismatic, performance-style preaching<\/li>\n
  • Had income of \u00a3652,800 ($858,000) for the financial year ending December 2015<\/li>\n
  • Spent \u00a3609,300<\/li>\n
  • Described by UK Labour MP David Lammy as a “modern-day snake-oil salesman”<\/li>\n
  • Says he was consecrated as an Archbishop by a US evangelist in 1992<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    When the BBC asked Mr Deya during its 2014 investigation how he explained the births of children with DNA different to that of their alleged parents, the 65-year-old Mr Deya said: “The miracle babies which are happening in our ministry are beyond human imagination.<\/p>\n

    “It is not something I can say I can explain because they are of God and things of God cannot be explained by a human being.”<\/p>\n

    Kenya’s police spokesman Charles Owino told the BBC that Mr Deya had arrived in Nairobi aboard a Kenya Airways flight following his extradition.<\/p>\n

    Mr Deya had opposed his extradition, saying he feared being tortured and sentenced to death.<\/p>\n

    In 2007, his wife, Mary, was sentenced to two years in prison in Kenya after being convicted of stealing a baby.<\/p>\n

    In 2011, she was sentenced to three years in jail after being convicted of stealing another child.<\/p>\n

    Desperate women, some past the menopause and others who were infertile, were convinced that being prayed for by Mr Deya and travelling to Kenya would result in a child.<\/p>\n

    Once there, they were convinced by Mrs Deya and others that they were experiencing labour and taken to illegal clinics where they believed they had given birth.<\/p>\n

    But they were actually given babies which had been taken from local women.<\/p>\n

    –<\/p>\n

    Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The UK has extradited a self-styled Kenyan pastor, who claimed he created miraculous pregnancies, to Kenya to face child-trafficking charges. Gilbert Deya’s extradition came after he failed in his decade-long legal battle to remain in the UK. He denied charges of stealing five children between 1999 and 2004 when he appeared in court in Nairobi. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}