Ease returns to Eldoret after 3-days of Prophet David Owuor's meeting

Dr David Owuor of the Repentance and Holiness Ministry at the Eldoret sports club meeting in Uasin Gishu County Sunday. [PHOTO: ELIUD KIPSANG/STANDARD]

ELDORET: Regularity has returned to the city of Eldoret after a three days' National Thanksgiving Meeting by self- proclaimed Prophet Dr David Owuor came to an end Sunday evening with some of the followers seeming to be stranded in town.

At around 8pm Sunday night several women with suitcases and babies tightly clinging on them, probably from the biting cold, had pitched camp outside social joints along the infamous Oginga Odinga street.

Several groups of men dressed in suits and women in long clothes with muddy shoes from the events' ground criss-crossed the streets of Eldoret with Public Service Vehicle (PSV) operators making huge business by ferrying the faithful of Repentance and Holiness Ministry to their different destinations.

There was a countless multitude at the Eldoret Sports Club on that final day of the prayer meeting where Owuor declared that God loves Kenya.

The meeting that attracted thousands of people some from as far as Europe and Asia was the culmination of prayers, 'healing' and testimonies of 'miracles' brought out booming business in Eldoret town.

Roadsides between the town and Eldoret Sports Club had been turned into a busy market where food, drinks and other wares sold like gem to the congregants who had come to listen to the 'Man of God' and 'receive their miracles'.

It was also a great moment for hoteliers in Eldoret with nearly all big hotels reporting full bookings. Boma Inn manager Ali Kibwana said business was good. "We are glad business doing very well,"

Dr Owuor told Kenyans to turn away from sin and embrace God for the country to continue receiving blessing and warned that the nation the 'God loves so much' would perish if they did not change their ways and get to the path of righteousness.

Flanked by hundreds of pastors from his church, Owour who told the congregation that he was immediately leaving for a similar meeting in Brazil said repentance would take Kenya to greatness.

"God wants us to repent so that he can pour his blessings abundantly," he said. Hundreds of sick people who claimed they had been healed were paraded in front and some gave their testimonies of how through Dr Owour's prayers.

Mr Samwel Waweru and his wife Elizabeth Wanjiku, a couple from Kakamega told the congregation that they had not gotten a child for 15 years but through prayers they were blessed with a baby in April this year.

"Every pregnancy miscarried and for over ten years we stayed without a baby, but after Dr Owour's prayers my wife became pregnant last year and we now happy with our baby Samwel Emmanuel 'God be with us'," said Mr Waweru.

Wareng Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) Esther Muhoro said the security was beefed up in the prayer venue and all over Eldoret and there had not been any major incident.

"It was a successful meeting, no incidence, and we are happy that it ended well, people probably stuck to their main agenda of prayer," said Muhoro.

However, today the town eased from the massive traffic it encountered when the prophet arrived in Eldoret in a fleet of high end cars escorted by police officers and Sunday's rigmarole brought about by thousands of individuals that had attended the prayer meeting.