Investigations have established that Backstone Agaro, the man who was arrested on March 6 for seeking directions to Somalia, could have been suffering from depression.
Agaro, aged 53, was arrested in Mandera on suspicion that he was on his way to join Al-Shabaab militants but was released on Monday.
According to Francis Lemusi, the head of the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) in Mandera, Agaro sold all his property and gave the proceeds to a church.
“His family members in Nairobi recorded statements at ATPU headquarters indicating that the respondent was a member of the Ministry of Holiness and Repentance where he gave all his investments,” Kennedy Amwayi, a State counsel revealed.
Furthermore, his nephew Kennedy Agavishi Mulombe confirmed that his uncle had been attending Bishop Owour’s church of Holiness and Repentance , and that his behaviour had surprised his family.
Mulombe added that his uncle travelled a lot on grounds that he had been sent by God to go and preach, but ended up lonely in many of the towns he travelled to.
As claimed by Daily Nation, a notebook was found in Agaro’s possession that showed places he had visited either personally or with fellow worshipers for preaching and crusades.
However, when the same publication contacted him, Agaro refuted claims that he had sold his property in order to give money to the church.
The controversial “Prophet” David Owuor was in the headlines in early March after reports detailed how he had allegedly brainwashed a Nairobi-based lawyer.
According to the lawyer's family, Owuor had allegedly taken over their kin's Ksh1.5 billion property located in Riverside, Nairobi and was pocketing millions of shillings in monthly rent.