Bishop Gilbert Deya of the controversial Gilbert Deya Ministries, a church that claimed infertile women could conceive through prayer and divine intervention is dead.
The bishop died on the spot in a road accident along the Kisumu-Bondo highway Tuesday afternoon.
The tragic road accident occured at Namba Kapiyo and involved a school bus belonging to Moi Girls, a Toyota Fortuner with the registration plates of the County Government of Siaya and a Toyota Noah.
Confirming the accident Nyanza Traffic boss Peter Maina said Bishop Gilbert Deya died on the spot while 30 others sustained varying degrees of injury.
Bishop Deya together with his wife Mary Anyango rose to international fame with their notorious claims of miracle babies in the 1990s and 2000s.
Interpol investigators in the UK where they were headquartered busted the Gilbert Deya International ministry as a child trafficking ring.
Deya was accused of stealing 5 children from hospitals and poor families in Kenya between 1999 and 2004 and presenting them to desperate couples in the UK as “miracle babies”.
At the height of his success Gilbert Deya Ministries had churches in London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool and Manchester.
Deya was extradited from the United Kingdom in 2017 following a decade-long legal battle both abroad and in Kenya.
He would deny multiple counts of child theft and the cases dragged on without witnesses willing to come out. His case raised questions about religious exploitation and accountability.
Although Deya largely stepped away from public limelight he remains an intriguing persona, quite controversial in legal and religious circles.
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