Flamboyant televangelist Bishop David Muriithi of House of Grace Church has admitted to siring a child out of wedlock with a woman who sued him for child upkeep.
The woman identified as Judy Mutave Muasya sued the Bishop and demanded a Sh100, 000 monthly allowance for child maintainance and upkeep.
In his replying affidavit, Muriithi said he will take responsibility of the child but he can only afford Sh10,000 on a monthly basis since he depends on well-wishers to survive.
“I offer to take full responsibility of paying fees for the minor and as well as payment of 10,000 per month for the minor’s upkeep bearing in mind my limited means and family responsibility,” he said.
The Bishop also said the demand that he be compelled to take the child to Kiota School is unreasonable as he cannot afford fees at the said institution since he has no regular income and only relies on well-wishers for support of the church as well as his family.
He said that when the child gets to age 4, then he can take up his school fees as shall have been agreed upon between the two parties and their advocates.
“I was not consulted on the choice of Kiota School, neither can I afford the school fess in the said school,” he stated.
The man of the cloth, however, said that the woman suing him for child support never disclosed to him during their relationship that she was pregnant.
He said the woman only kept complaining to him that she had fibroids, adding that he is now realizing otherwise and that he learnt she was pregnant long after they had ended their relationship.
“When I called to say hello…in the process, she casually informed me that she was at St. Mary’s Hospital Lang’ata to deliver a child, which shocked me…I could not have been excited about a pregnancy that I did not know about and which was all along hidden from me,” read the affidavit.
Muriithi has accused the woman of using their child to extort money from him since she thinks he is wealthy.
He says that as much as he is a Bishop in the church he heads, it is not true that he lives a high end life and this is only a pigment of her imagination.
The Bishop says there was no way he would have been excited about a pregnancy that he did not know about and which she had hidden from him.
However, hrough lawyer Danstan Omari, Mutave claimed Muriithi was happy and excited to hear that news of JM’s pregnancy and was overjoyed when the son was born.
“The plaintiff avers that during her pregnancy period, the defendant was supportive and he wilfully provided for her and the unborn child,” Omari said.
