A controversial Kenyan preacher has been summoned by police as the government cracks down on what it calls rogue churches and extremist religious leaders.
Eliud Wekesa, popularly known as “Jesus of Tongaren”, the leader of the New Jerusalem sect, was summoned on Tuesday for questioning about his suspicious religious teachings.
He has led members of his church to believe that he is Jesus. Mr Wekesa has 12 disciples named after the descendants of the biblical Jacob.
He is expected to appear before police in the western county of Bungoma on Wednesday.
However, the preacher says he has done nothing wrong to warrant an arrest, adding that he only spreads the gospel, local media reports.
This comes as investigators in Kilifi county on the coast looking into a separate case involving a doomsday cult said they had exhumed 21 more bodies, bringing the total of those known to have died to 133.
Pastor Paul Mackenzie, the leader of the Good News International Church based in Kilifi, is awaiting trial amid accusations of ordering his followers to starve themselves to death. Hundreds of others have been reported missing.
President William Ruto has formed a commission of inquiry to probe the deaths.
On Monday, police in the coastal county of Kwale rescued 200 people, including 50 children, from a forest in a suspected case of religious kidnapping.