'Miracle Babies' Preacher Gilbert Deya Back in Business after Release from Jail

Controversial "miracle-babies" preacher Gilbert Deya is back in business three months after he was released from jail.

Deya spent close to a year behind bars at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison following his extradition from the United Kingdom to face child theft charges in Kenya.

The televangelist was freed on a Sh10 million bail three months ago and appears to have wasted no time in establishing a new church. “Miracles work through me via Jesus Christ,” Deya says as quoted by The Standard.

His United Evangelical Church of Kenya has acquired space at the Pili Trade Centre opposite Hilton Gardens along Mombasa Rd in Nairobi and already has more than 100 adherents.

He says his Gilbert Deya Ministries in London remains operational under the able hands of his son, Amos Deya, a pilot by profession. “Amos is a British citizen and the ministry there is fairing even better under him,” he says.

“In my vision for Kenya is a 24-hour church, a centre for training church leaders and a 24-hour television station to help spread the gospel,” he divulges, adding that his calling is directly from God. 

“I was never ordained by anybody. Mine was a direct call,” he brags.

The preacher says plans are underway to launch his African headquarters in Nigeria because he commands a huge following in west Africa.

Deya has a funny explanation as to why he was extradited from the United Kingdom. He says God brought him to Kenya because he had vowed never to return to his motherland.

"The advocates I engaged to represent me locally gave me a fake order, hence the loss of my extradition case and three-month incarceration at Woolworth Prison in West London prior to my extradition."

 “That was foolish of me. God used the advocates to destroy the foolishness. I am grateful to Him because coming back home was a blessing in disguise.”