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How clergy 'ate cash and cows meant for church'

Walter Obare Omwanza, the presiding bishop
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (ELCK)

Walter Obare Omwanza, the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (ELCK), is a man under siege amid claims by some of his pastors that he has refused to relinquish power and has instead been looting from the church.

The clergymen claim the Kenyan church, which is affiliated to Lutheran World Federation and the International Lutheran Council, is gradually falling under Obare’s leadership.

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