Self proclaimed prophetess Mary Akatsa is lifeless

Self proclaimed prophetess Sinaida Mary Akatsa of Jerusalem Church of Christ in Kawangware, Nairobi, is ineffective.

Akatsa, popularly known as “Mummy,” “Mama Africa” or “Dada Mary,” died on Saturday in Nairobi from effectively being issues.

A member of the household who sought anonymity said the prophetess died at a metropolis hospital on account of kidney failure after ailing for a really very long time.

Akatsa induced a stir in June 1988 when she claimed that she had launched Jesus Christ in her church, a indisputable fact that was disputed by many people.

People who observed the alleged Jesus Christ said he was tall, bearded and bare-foot and was carrying white robes alongside together with his head lined in a turban and appeared ‘from nowhere’ sooner than the congregation, with Akatsa by his facet.

“We repeatedly, shouted, “Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus of Nazareth has come, we moreover requested him to scrub our sins.” said Kennedy Teyie a former devoted on the church.
Teyie said that “Jesus Christ” addressed them in Swahili and launched that the oldsters of Kenya and the nation had been blessed notably those who had gathered on the church.

“He was full of reward for Mummy and requested us to respect the prophetess since she was an actual advisor of The Most Extreme nonetheless I was shocked when after the service he was given a elevate by one different Asian man as an alternative of flying once more to heaven,” he said.

The data of the Asian man who had been confused to be Jesus Christ induced anxiousness inside the nation with the prophetess afterward clarifying that he had solely come to the church for prayers.

“My detractors are these spreading lies about me and the church to confuse people that exact individual was an Indian man who acquired right here to church to want like completely different people,” she said.
The prophetess was among the many many pioneer lady preachers inside the nation and opened her church in Kawangware near Muslim area in mid Nineteen Eighties sooner than relocating to Kawangware 56 in Nineteen Nineties.
Akatsa who has in no way disclosed her 12 months of starting is believed to be in her late 70`s or early 80`s.

She was born in Bunyore, Vihiga county and was married to Mr Akatsa (now deceased) who hailed from Kisa, Kakamega county.

The prophetess said that she doesn`t entertain adultery in her church and she or he divorced the husband resulting from adultery.

Akatsa who would possibly talk fully completely different East African languages and who had a giant following of worshipers said in a earlier interview that she was taken from her mom and father dwelling in Bunyore when she was eight-years-old to work as a house help in Kikuyu, Kiambu county and that`s the place she obtained the revelation to start out the work of God.

“My mom and father died as soon as I used to be very youthful and I was delivered to Kikuyu to work as maid and dealing inside the farm.I started this work of praying to people as soon as I used to be very youthful on the age of 9 or 10 years,” she said.

A variety of leaders have eulogized Akatsa her as a religious chief who helped society and notably Dagoretti North constituency.

Amongst those who mourned her had been the Kisii Governor Simba Arati, Dagoretti North MP Beatrice Elachi and Kilimani MCA Moses Ogeto.

“She was passionate and anxious about youth points. She visited my office quite a lot of cases as soon as I used to be the world MP to debate agenda for the youths and likewise campaigned for me to his supporters as soon as I used to be in search of the seat of MP,” said Arati.

The governor revealed that Akatsa was his ardent supporter and prayed to God to leisure her soul in eternal peace.

Elachi said that Akatsa began the work of evangelism in Kawangware in 1990`s when she was nonetheless youthful.

“I started listening to about her transforming lives of many by the use of prayers and Bible and on the time we didn’t have many church buildings as we see presently, many people would congregate on the gate leading to her Church very early for prayers and miracles,” she said.

The MP urged the prophetess’s followers and those who knew her to rejoice her life and emulate her good deeds.

Ogeto said that the late preacher was a disciplinarian who helped rework the lives of youths inside the constituency by the use of prayers and Bible look at.

He said that a wide range of hardcore criminals who operated in Kilimani and the encircling areas chosen obtained saved and abandoned their authorized actions after visiting Akatsa`s church, one factor he said she shall be remembered for.

It isn’t acknowledged whether or not or not the prophetess had natural kids nonetheless she adopted many kids that she educated and ensured they get employment.

“Plenty of the women or girls inside the nation and elsewhere on the earth often called Sinaida have been named after Mummy Sinaida Mary Akatsa,”said the prophetess’s follower Dorcas Mbithi.

People who knew Akatsa said she was a philanthropist who moreover invested in land in quite a few parts of the nation primarily in Western, Trans Nzoia and Nairobi counties.

She was as quickly as embroiled in a land dispute with private builders over area the place the church stands in Kawangware 56.

The row ended following intervention by some senior authorities officers inside the then provincial administration.

Based mostly on her congregants she travelled extensively inside the nation and the world doing evangelism.

Akatsa who was moreover a gospel music composer alongside along with her church band was acknowledged to be strict on followers and they also wanted to run when coming into church and she or he would beat whoever went in opposition to the rules.

“You understand proper right here people from fully completely different backgrounds come proper right here and likewise you see I am a lady if I don`t inculcate self-discipline in them they’re going to over run me that`s why these which might be often not disciplined I beat them,” the prophetess said.

Her church attracted people from fully completely different walks of life and some politicians went to the prophetess for prayers by means of the electioneering interval.
Devoted sat on the bottom as there have been no chairs inside the church.

In March 2021, Akatsa was inside the info as soon as extra when she officiated a wedding ceremony of a deceased man and his companion.

She officiated the wedding of Beatrice Mbayi and her late husband William Godfrey Mukalama in Funyula, Busia county, who had been her followers.

The bride was sporting a white gown and was escorted by women from the neighborhood, as she walked down the aisle to the corpse in a casket.

“We’re aware it isn’t your wish to have a wedding ceremony on this methodology, nonetheless kindly accept this ring so that you simply simply and your partner will keep one,” Prophetess Akatsa said then.
She said by means of the marriage ceremony that members of the church view lack of life as a graduation, subsequently the idea that even in lack of life a pair would possibly keep collectively.

In December remaining 12 months about 20 self-confessed hardcore criminals provided themselves at her church and repented all through a service to usher inside the New 12 months.
They’d been prayed for by Akatsa after she observed them among the many many worshipers.

The reformed criminals acquired right here from Gachie in Kiambu County, Kibera and Kawangware and had been primarily youths between the age of 18 and three.

One in every of many youths from Congo in Kawangware, who requested to not be named for security causes, said that he decided to repent after of his six accomplices had been gunned down by police.
He said that he joined crime because of he didn’t have a job and his partner had deserted him.

“I have been a hardcore authorized for higher than six years and killed many people nonetheless after dropping my associates who had been shot ineffective, I decided to range,” he said.

One different youth David Ndunda (not his precise determine) and who claimed to have reformed, suggested Akatsa that together with one in all his accomplices who has since died, they’d been contracted at one stage to assassinate her inside the church.

He said that some people, who had been in opposition to the popularity of the preacher inside the area, had assigned them to finish her nonetheless by the use of steering and prayers from Akatsa, he abandoned the plans.

Ndunda said he repented some few years previously after visiting the church and obtained saved after a botched theft mission in Karen the place his 5 accomplices had been killed by Flying Squad officers.

“After I survived the killing, I misplaced a colleague with whom I had been assigned to kill Mummy Akatsa, I acquired right here to her, repented and now doing actual enterprise,” said Ndunda.

Akatsa said that because of the youths had chosen to repent their sins publicly and procure Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, she would not take them to the police.

She promised to help them protected employment and do enterprise.

“Now that they’ve repented and so that they don’t get once more to crime, I will assure I open for them small firms and buy them bikes to work as boda boda riders,” said Akatsa.

The preacher said that many youths get into crime resulting from monetary hardships and within the occasion that they choose to range and by no means confirmed what to do after that, they’d nonetheless return to crime.

She said that she would use her have an effect on and connections to help those who repent purchase employment.

Now what stays to be seen after Akatsa’s demise is how her church shall be run because of she single handedly led the devoted.