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Throwbacks: The rise of street preacher James Ng’ang’a to church leader

Throwbacks: The rise of street preacher James Ng’ang’a to church leader
Throwbacks: The rise of street preacher James Ng'ang'a to church leaderPastor James Ngโ€™angโ€™a of Neno Evangelism Centre has risen from humble beginning as a street preacher in Mombasa after he was released from jail in late 1990s, to his current big name.

Ngโ€™angโ€™a started the ministry after he was released from Shimo la Tewa, cycling from one point to another, preaching in open air crusades.

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At Shimo la Tewa, he served an eight-year jail term for robbery with violence, cumulatively bringing to 21 the years he had spent in jails.

Ngโ€™angโ€™a had earlier been jailed in Kamiti and Naivasha prisons and has not kept it a secret from his church.

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He relocated to Nairobi in 2001 operating from rental houses. Several years later, he became a regular preacher on national TV channels.

He acquired a prime parcel in down town Nairobi and put up a semi-permanent structure where he holds sermons.

Ngโ€™angโ€™a opened a motor bazaar next to his church, selling new and used cars.

On July 26, Ngโ€™angโ€™a was linked to a car that was involved in a road accident in Limuru, where Mercy Njeri was killed and her husband seriously injured.

The Range Rover sport KCD 060Q collided head-on with another car.

At his church, Ngโ€™angโ€™a has been accusing land grabbers eyeing the church land of engineering his โ€œpersecutionโ€.

Last Sunday, 50 bishops and pastors from his ministryโ€™s satellite churches gathered in Nairobi to raise the bond for their leader.

โ€œWe are ready [to raise it] even if it is Sh30 million,โ€ a pastor said.

Ngโ€™angโ€™a was released yesterday on Sh500,000 bail.

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Throwbacks: The rise of street preacher James Ng’ang’a to church leader

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