President Ruto assembled 40 spiritual leaders to anoint State House days after he was sworn in.
Ruto hosted a Thanksgiving service at the State House Gardens on Sunday, September 25, 2022, and requested the clergy to cleanse the residence.
He added that a team of 40 spiritual leaders had been assembled to lead prayer sessions at the State House to cleanse it before he moves in and begins discharging his presidential responsibilities from there.
The climax of it was that the facility being dedicated to God with the president holding that prayers will see God provide solutions for the nation.
“After this service, there is a part two which may not be as organized as the first session. We will ask 30 or 40 of our senior clergy to pray over this building and this residence, and the offices so that God can give us solutions for this country.
“Do not leave after lunch, speak a word of blessing on these grounds and around this compound, even on the farm, everywhere! Those who can speak in tongues, please do so, so that it is known that the new tenants have arrived,” president Ruto said.
There are speculations that cult leader Paul Mackenzie of the Good News International Church was among clergy who cleanse the State House.
Netizens have been claiming that Mackenzie was at the State House function after photos doing rounds on social media appear to show him there.
Kenya Reports cannot independently verify the authenticity of the photos.
Mackenzie has been under siege after it emerged that he asked his followers to starve themselves to death in order to meet Jesus.
109 bodies of his followers had been exhumed from the Shakahola forest as of Thursday April 27, 2023.
The bodies had been buried in shallow mass graves scattered all over the forest.
Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kithure Kindiki issued a 30-day dusk-to-dawn curfew around the forest.
The CS said the entire 800-acre parcel of land that is part of the Shakahola ranch was a disturbed area and an operation zone.
