Bishop Francis Mugweru of Joy Springs Soul-winning Worship Centre in Juja, Kiambu County was laid to rest yesterday at his church compound in a drama-filled ceremony.
The clergyman’s mutilated body was found 300 meters from his Kiganjo home on Friday last week with one of his ears chopped off, his finger severed from his hand and his skull crushed.
The man of the cloth, 62, who eloped with a married woman in August, last year was allegedly accosted by unknown men on Thursday night and assaulted to death.
It is believed the bishop was brutally murdered a day before he paid his second wife’s dowry.
The bishop was buried in absence of his two ‘wives’ in a ceremony that saw only family and a select few clergymen allowed at the burial site.
Local administration had a a hard time to disperse a huge crowd of curious mourners who wanted to witness the body of the infamous bishop being interred.
The two wives had been embroiled in a tug of war over where their husband should be buried.
One of the wives is said to have ordered her husband’s body to be interred at the church compound while the rest insisted that the burial should happen at their home in Juja farm.
Three suspects are still held by Thika police in connection to the bishop’s murder.
The three are reported to be the bishop’s first wife Agnes Wangivi, 52, the woman he eloped with Leah Wambui and her former husband John Kanyua.
According to Kiambu County Police Commander Ali Nuno who confirmed the arrest, the three have already appeared in court and charged with murder.
Bishop Mugweru who enjoys a substantial church following across Mt Kenya region shocked faithful and residents alike when he took off with the wife and five children of Kanyua, a church member he supported spiritually during his youth—and even officiated their marriage.
The cleric, who separated with Wangivi in 2013 after she allegedly threatened to kill him, said he is now a happy man, adding his former wife with whom he has three adult children, some of whom have married, is an “infidel”.
He accused Wangivi of selling their vehicle and several cows, and using the proceeds to allegedly further her extramarital escapades.
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