Elijah Misiko, a pastor, during a church service, left his front-row seat and approached his wife, senior pastor Ann Mughoi, on the pulpit and stabbed her with one of the knives he had hidden in an envelope, a report has said. The incident happened on Sunday, according to Mombasa sub-county police commander Julius Kiragu,“He walked up to his wife while the church was praying”. The couple is said to have been engaged in a long-running feud over the ownership and leadership of the church. In 2017, Misiko was detained by the police in Mombasa after his wife alleged he planned to kill her, the police commander said. Misiko left a 17-page suicide note in which he accused Mughoi of changing ownership of the church, which he said the couple founded, to her name alone, police said.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 06, 2020 15:56 UTC