Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - Famous televangelist, Pastor Ezekiel Odero, has suffered a huge blow.
This is after an Appellate Court
declined to issue an order stopping the deregistration of his New Life Prayer
Centre church.
Odero had moved to court seeking
to overturn the High Court decision that granted the government the leeway to
deregister his church.
The Kilfi-based preacher’s
prayer centre church was among the churches listed for deregistration by the Registrar
of Societies on grounds of breaching the Agency’s regulations.
In his application, Odero also
sought a temporary order to block the deregistration of his church, a request
which the court granted pending hearing and determination of the case.
In its ruling, the court
dismissed the preacher's application on grounds that Odero and other church
officials had not exhausted other dispute resolution mechanisms provided by the
law before resorting to the courts.
“In light of the consistent decisions
of this Court and the Supreme Court that a party must first invoke the dispute
resolution mechanisms provided by the law before resorting to the High Court or
courts or equal status, we are satisfied that the intended appeal is not
arguable,” the court ruled.
In August last year,
Ezekiel Odero moved to the Court of Appeal to challenge the
government's decision to deregister his church on tax evasion claims.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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