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‘Devil-Worshipper’ Stuns Crowd
The Nation (Nairobi), 20 October 2000
Nairobi - A crowd at Kisumu's Moi stadium yesterday listened with shock as Mr. Peter Ben Otieno, 28, narrated his experience as a devil worshipper.
Nyanza Provincial Commissioner, Peter Raburu, presented the self-confessed satanist to a Kenyatta Day rally audience, to prove that satanism was rife in the province.
There was commotion as curious wananchi scrambled to catch a glimpse of Mr. Otieno, who explained the intricacies of devil worship, which he said was responsible for the recent wave of child abductions in the country.
Mr. Otieno said he had worshipped Satan for seven years.
"I was recruited in Mombasa and taken to the Indian Ocean for initiation. I was stripped naked and made to drink blood from human skulls and I have been an active agent," he said.
He said he had married and divorced 50 women who left him on learning of his devil worship links.
Dressed in a beige suit, Mr. Otieno said devil worship cults targeted mainly school children through peer influence, rock music and immoral programmes in the electronic media.
"We worked to destroy society and to cause fear among the people through rumour mongering and malicious campaigns against prominent personalities. We worked to break family units," he added.
The cults, he added, also used hospitals where they influenced doctors to become reckless and cause deaths.
They also worked through road accidents and through corruption, he said.
Mr. Otieno, who hails from Ugenya, said a cartel dealing in inter-state child trade was using devil worshippers as agents.
He said he was now a born-again Christian and regretted his past. The confession comes in the wake of growing tension over alleged child abductions and strange rituals in Kisumu.
On Thursday, members of the public beat two women senseless at Kibuye market on suspicion that they had stolen two children.
While addressing a Moi Day rally last week, Mr. Raburu attributed problems afflicting the province to devil worship amongst. He promised to present a devil worshipper to the crowd.
Yesterday, the PC said he had brought Mr. Otieno as a public awareness campaign against the vice.
The PC also declared war on wife inheritance, saying the practice was responsible for the rapid spread of Aids in the province.
He ordered chiefs and their assistants to arrest notorious wife inheritors.
The PC assured wananchi that the government had posted surveillance teams along borders to check the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
Mr. Raburu blamed "lazy" farmers who had neglected their farms for the worsening food security situation in the province.
He ordered chiefs to arrest farmers found to have left their land idle.