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PROSPERITY QUEEN DETHRONED : BISHOP MARGARET WANJIRU LOSES HER PARLIAMENTARY SEAT
By Arthur Owiti
The Defeat's 5 Revelations
Bishop,Honourable,Dr Margaret Wanjiru of Jesus is Alive Ministry (JIAM ) has lost her Starehe Constituency seat after the HIgh court ruled in favour of Election petitioner Maina Kamanda.Maina through the court petition claimed that he lost the seat unfairly during the 2007 elections giving Wanjiru the seat.
This decision means that a by election is on the way .However apart from a by election ,the decision is a big blow to the Prosperity Queen who is also part of Kenya's Executive branch of government by being an Assistant Minister of Housing.
This episode reveals many issues.
1. THE DIRT OF CHRISTIAN POLITICKING
Many Christians are convinced that politics can be sanctified by Christians when they join into it because they have the blood of Jesus as a cover.However Margaret Wanjiru's debacle has revealed how dirty politics is and that it is impossible for a Christian to stay clean and win in politics and gain Christ at the same time.
I speak ,having close relations with those who are regular attendants of Wanjiru's church.
Before the election, "Bishop" Wanjiru told her congregants to get voter's cards and vote in Starehe Constituency.The illegalityof that move was that most of her congregants were not from Starehe and thus by them voting in Starehe when they were not constituents they were involving themselves in election fraud.
One who attended her church told me that she refused to be involved in such because she was from another part of Nairobi
and she knew the illegality of such an action.However most voted in Starehe when they were not from Starehe.
On the day of election Bishop Wanjiru's supporters were involved in clashes with Maina Kamanda's supporters.The violence was one of the sparks that brought tnesion and bloodshed in Nairobi during the bllody elections of 2007-2008.
After being declared winner Bishop Wanjiru not only got a parliamentary seat but a Ministerial position.However a faceless sister in Christ sent a mesage that was published by one of the Kneyan Christian newspapers that those religious leaders who misused the name of Jesus in politicking will not see the next election in 2012 in that they that won seats will lose them .
Nonetheless Bishop Wanjiru rewarded some of her supporters some of whom were prayer warriors ,with positions such as councillors in Starehe.These poor( economically impoverished ) were rewarded to their joy.It is then that Maina Kamnada petitioned against Ms Wanjiru.The petition has taken 3 years.
Though she is no stranger to controversy, this incident really reveals how politics involves dirty tricks and a lot of violence which is not the domain of any Christian leader or follower.
The blood of Jesus was shed for people and not for US dollars or Politics.The blood of Jesus sanctifies sinners not creatures of man such as politics and money. Ms Wanjiru was warned not to meddle in Politics in the name of Jesus and apply his blood over it.The fruits have been revealed.
2. PUBLIC SCORN AGAINST THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL
The jubilation that has filled parts of Nairobi is enough evidence of the beginning of the end of the Evangelical prosperity Movement.
During the court sessions the people supporting Kamanda boldly called her a witch who uses witchcraft and also branded the same to her prayer warriors that attended the court sessions.
I do not support false accusation but such statements reveal the hatred and disrespect people have for Prosperity preachers.
Many Kenyans are not impressed by the greed that has been exuded by these preachers,Our cry is that they repent of this gospel before it is too late.
3. THE FLAWS OF ELECTIONS
She is the seventh Mp to lose her seat and thus go for a by election .This is telling.
The electoral system of 2007 was a big sham and shame in that malpractices carried the day.this will make many Kenyans be very suspicious of nay election
and accept that they are nothing but shams.
4. A BIG BLOW TO POLITICAL EVANGELICAL CHURCH'S POLITICAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION.
Ms Wanjiru is one of the main leaders against the proposed constitution.this week she was busy rallying thousands of Evangelical pastors against the document.
This episode will definitely throw the pastors in a frenzy as some will retreat as others will be radicalized telling their followers that the government is out to kill their political morale hence they should vote against the proposed constitution to show support for Wanjiru.
Instead of Pastors going to softly sit Bishop Wanjiru down and rebuke her brand of Political and Prosperity Gospel ,they are still going to rally with her.
It is a shame that discernment has been thrown out of the window in the name of politics and dominionism.
5.PROPHECY BOOMERANG
During the Prayer cum Political Rally where six innocent Kenyans lost their lives, Bishop Margaret made a decree from the book of Daniel 4 against politicians who abused the church leaders as false prophets She said " those who speak against the servants of God in the past we have forgiven.But from today henceforth whoever speaks against the prophets of God his kingdom will collapse ".
Now some thought this was fulfilled when Raila Odinga was recently hospitalized.However I wonder what she can say now that she is faced with a by election on her hands when here followers have been fasting day in day out not for holiness or for mercy but for her seat and Christian politics.
Bishop Wanjiru needs to know that the Doctrine of Jezebel which is the doctrine of joining with the things of the world such as Politics and Money is evil and this court decision is an opportunity for her to repent and return to the true doctrine of Jesus Christ.
Christians need to know that the Prosperity Gospel and Political Christianity IS NOT SOUND DOCTRINE OR THE TEACHINGS JESUS CHRIST.
Repent of holding such teachings and the Lord will receive you as his own.
In Christ
Arthur Owiti
Starehe MP Wanjiru loses seat
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By SAM KIPLAGAT
Posted Friday, July 30 2010 at 11:30
Starehe MP Margaret Wanjiru has lost her parliamentary seat after a Kenya court ruled that she was not validly elected during the 2007 general election.
Giving his verdict, Justice Kihara Kariuki said the poll was marred by massive tampering of election material.
The judge said he did not know when and where the tampering occurred, adding that with the irregularities Bishop Wanjiru was not validly elected.
However, Justice Kihara declined to grant prayers by petitioner Maina Kamanda, who had requested the court to declare him the validly elected Starehe MP.
He said that the court has no powers to declare him the area MP since its only jurisdiction was to determine whether an MP was validly elected or not.
The judge said that was the role of the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) and the Speaker of the National Assembly.
Mr Kamanda had prayed to the court to declare him the winner and his name substituted with that of Bishop Wanjiru. If the prayer was allowed, the former MP would have avoided a by-election.
He based his prayers on the strength of Section 27(2) of the National Assembly and Presidential Elections Act. The section allows the Speaker to make changes should the court so declare.
Bishop Wanjiru becomes the seventh MP to lose her seat through an election petition, an indictment of the flaws in the 2007 general election.
Recount
The Bishop, who vied for the seat on an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) ticket, was then announced to have defeated Mr Kamanda of the Party of National Unity (PNU) by 895 votes.
Mr Kamanda disputed and filed a petition in February 2008. A vote recount was ordered and Mr Kamanda was found to have 49,306 votes against Bishop Wanjiru's 34,871, a difference of 14,435.
According to him, he lost the seat after Forms 16A were falsified. But Bishop Wanjiru disputed his lead saying the ballot boxes were interfered with at the Nyayo National Stadium where they were kept after the elections.
Three by-elections have already been held with two MPs losing in the subsequent polls. Mr Omingo Magara of South Mugirango lost the seat to Manson Nyamweya as Joel Onyancha lost to Simon Ogari in Bomachoge.
Mr Chirau Ali Mwakwere, who also lost an election petition, successfully recaptured the Matuga seat in a by-election in July.
Several election petitions are still pending in court. They include the petition challenging the election of Dr Boni Khalwale (Ikolomani), Mr Simon Mbugua (Kamukunji), Mr Walter Nyambati (Kitutu Masaba) and Mr Ngata Kariuki of Kirinyaga Central.
