The African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa (AIPCA) has linked two members of parliament to the goons who disrupted the Sunday church service attended by President William Ruto on December 14.
The church revealed this during a media briefing released on December 20 by Rev Gabriel Kanjiri, who claimed that the church has credible evidence that the MPs were involved in the mobilisation of goons to attend the event.
"Credible evidence exists in the form of videos, mobilisation messages and transaction communications showing organised recruitment and payment prior to the Sunday service," Rev Gabriel Kanjiri stated.
Kanjiri further alleged that the two politicians accused of the mobilisation of goons were present at the church service, but did not mention the names of the members of parliament.
The church leader claims that the politicians involved in the alleged mobilisation of goons manipulated congregants from the AIPCA church and used them as political tools.
"Youths and church members were manipulated and used as political tools," the preacher claimed.
During the church service, the alleged goons heckled Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi during his address in front of Ruto, after the area MP, Elijah Kururia, introduced the governor as the outgoing governor.
The Sunday service saw women in trousers wearing make-up dressed in Women's Council regalia, events that escalated public debate. According to the church customs, members of the Women's Council are not allowed to wear trousers to church or wear make-up and nose rings.
On December 15, the church clarified that the women in question had been given the Women's Council blue headscarves by politicians, not by the church, saying that the scarves can only be bought from the church headquarters in Nairobi.
The AIPCA church leader condemned the events that transpired during the church service; however, they said that they shall not stop politicians from coming to the church but warned that they should be careful with their utterances at the pulpit.
Political leaders have since condemned the events that transpired during the church service, led by the former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, who blamed the President for the events that took place at the church.
Gachagua claims that the President is reinventing his political tricks by ferrying goons and cheerleaders to churches using school buses.
