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
Gilbert Deya: ‘The Archbishop of Peckham’<\/strong><\/p>\n 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 Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n