Patients were cured of HIV/AIDS at Prophet Owuor's church - Dr Toromo Kochei tells Senate

Dr Toromo Kochei, the Rift Valley provincial coordinator of the Kenya National Aids and STI Control Programme (NASCOP), told the committee that under the authority of NASCOP, he conducted a detailed history of the patients who claimed to be cured and discovered that they were completely cured.

He gave the committee at least three names of HIV patients who had allegedly been cured of the disease through faith healing, saying that reports of patients being cured through miracles were not fanciful.

"I am saying that miracles do happen. Don't refute it," Dr Toromo told the committee. 

"We have Samson here who was helped by HIV and is still negative. When we focus on this healing, we will benefit as a country."

He told the Senate Committee that Prophet Owuor's church typically sends patients who have been healed to hospitals to have their illnesses confirmed.

Dr Toromo is part of televangelist Prophet Owuor's defence team, brought by the church before the Senate to prove that miracles are legitimate and scientifically verifiable.

According to Dr Toromo, there was also a case of a woman who became pregnant through faith healing despite having her uterus removed.

"The church of the prophet Owuor sends them to doctors to confirm the miracles performed. And we have performed miracles where people with HIV/AIDS were cured, and a woman who had her uterus removed also got pregnant. As a medical doctor I personally confirmed it," he added.

Although he agrees that there is no available cure for HIV, at least conventionally, Prophet Owuor has over the years preached that faith healing can cure the disease whose cure has boggled scientists for the last three decades.