Margaret Wanjiru claims brutal assault as her Nairobi church demolished

According to Wanjiru, who accused the Kenya Kwanza Government of turning its back on her, despite her spirited campaigns in the previous General Election, she sustained injuries during the Wednesday, February 6 incident and will seek treatment. 

"Nimepigwa, nimeumia mkono na mguu hata nataka kwenda hospitali, watu wangu pia wamepigwa wote, everyone is bleeding," a teary-eyed Bishop Wanjiru told journalists. 

"Hawa watu wametupiga leo wanasema wametumwa na Railways."

According to the former Nairobi Governor candidate, several people who identified themselves as DCI and NIS officers paid visits to the property on the Haile Selassie Highway prior to its demolition. 

During the Wednesday incident, Bishop Wanjiru said people who claimed to have been sent by Kenya Railways descended on her property and began the demolitions, and roughed anyone who stood in their way. 

"I want to state categorically that hii Weruga lane haina property ya Railways, this is our own investment , hii ni property yetu ya kanisa," she added. 

"Mtu kuja kuchokora kanisa na kutupiga na kutuharibia mali yetu.. na hizi ni vitu zetu, wametunyanganya masimu, wametuumiza ile kabisa."

Wanjiru, describing herself as one of Kenya's chief kwanza campaigners in the Nairobi region, stated that she did not expect to be repaid in such a manner. 

"I wasn't campaigning to be repaid like this. It is very sad that this is the government that we campaigned for," Wanjiru said. 

"I am yet to believe that they can do this to me. I am the one who sold UDA in Nairobi," 

A Nairobi court dismissed a case from 2022 that challenged the construction of a wall between Kenya Railways' land and Bishop Margret Wanjiru's church in Nairobi.

The case was filed by Bishop Wanjiru's church, Jesus Is Alive Ministries (JIAM), Rhambai Patel, S&H Investments, and Soma Properties.

The petitioners sued Kenya Railways Corporation, Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS), and Kenya Urban Roads Authority, claiming that the ongoing development was obstructing their access to Railway Lane, Exchange Lane, Weruga Lane, and Haile Selassie Avenue.

Kenya Railways responded by claiming ownership of the entire area occupied by Wanjiru's church and her neighbours. According to Railways, the allocations to those properties were made irregularly and separated from its property.