Maina Njenga once asked politicians and wealthy businessmen who have been funding and supporting the sect to stop. Njenga, who has bodyguards, has occasionally hosted parties at his palatial residence in Kitengela.
PASTOR JAMES MAINA NG’ANG’A
He walks around with a gun, and has been photographed drinking something more bitter than peppered soup. A while back, social media went ablaze with accusations that the pastor had bribed policemen to release his dented Prado after a hit and run incident. His miracles are said to cost between Sh3,000 to Sh50,000.
Pastor Ng’ang’a of Neno Evangelism ministries is rich and sometimes comes off as arrogant.
MARK KARIUKI
Forget his well cut designer suits and shoes. Just know that to reach the former deputy head teacher of Kenyatta Primary School, your call first goes to his Personal Assistant. Forget that too and consider one highlight of Bishop Mark Kariuki’s life- his glamorous wedding to Pastor Joyce Wacera Kariuki (after his first wife, Joyce Wangui Kariuki passed on in 2007) in May.
The invite-only event was held at the Kasarani Gymnasium in Nairobi. So big was it that it was dubbed ‘Bishop Mark Kariuki’s Grand Wedding’ and featured as the closing episode of the Samantha Bridal Wedding TV show.
The seven-hour wedding was attended by around 6,000 people, equivalent to 12 weddings at a go! Bishop Kariuki sported a charcoal black suit, lilac shirt and purple-stripped tie while Joyce radiated elegance in a white mermaid bustier gown with glass bead work and a bolero under elbow-length veil.
Pastor Wacera, a church usher, chose eggplant purple and baby yellow as her décor colour regimes punctuated by lime green. Two flower and flower and décor companies were required to pull off the feat!
Five catering outfits were divided to feed 1,200 attendant’s each while 300 VVIPs were taken care of via the Safari Park Hotel’s outside catering unit.
The Kenya Police, a private security concern and the church’s own ‘bouncers’ took care of security for the 300 VVIPs. The least one can pay at the gymnasium for a wedding is Sh20,000 per hour, with an additional 30,000 for catering which also depends on the magnitude of the event. The stadium also charges for photography and videography. The couple later flew out to Tanzania for their honeymoon.
Besides the 10,000-seater sanctuary that is the Life Celebration Centre, Bishop Kariuki is the General Overseer of Deliverance Church for which he provides guidance to pastors in over 700 churches. Among his interests includes King’s Academy School, King’s Medical Centre and Homologeo Industries that comprises Homologeo Detergents & Body Products, Homologeo Tailoring and Poultry projects.
The Bishop’s lifestyle is markedly different from his childhood years when he walked barefoot with a long shirt doubling as a pair of shorts and trousers until one Christmas he will never forget: Bishop Mark Kariuki was given a pair of shorts as an X-Mas present!
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