Controversial televisionist Gilbert Deya, known for his claims for treating infertility, died in a multi-marriage car accident in Western Kenya. Local authorities confirmed Deya’s death on Tuesday.
James Orango, Governor of Sia County, Kenya, announced the death on the social platform X, “described as a terrible road accident that included several vehicles.”
Local media reports indicated several casualties in the collision. Pictures on social media from the scene reflect severely damaged vehicles on the highway.
Deya, an ontime stonemane, who later styled herself as a bishop, rich in claims of her ability to successfully pray for women in the 1990s, struggling for infants.
In the 1990s, Preacher He moved from Kenya to UK, where he led Gilbert Deya Ministries, with churches in cities London And Manchester,
Kenya news agency said after Deya’s death that the preacher and his wife “claimed that women of infertile or menopause could be pregnant in four months, thanks to their prayers, without sexual relations.”
The “miraculous infants” claims later attracted the attention of the authorities, and were accused of stealing five children between 1999 and 2004 in Kenya.
In 2017, he was extradited in Kenya to face criminal allegations, which he refused. The prosecutors argued in that case that Deya stole infants from poor people in Kenya and gave them to others to raise them in their form.
In 2023, Deya was acquitted of all the allegations.
