I gave birth in a taxi, Deya wife tells court

The wife of Bishop Gilbert Deya claimed on Tuesday that she delivered a miracle baby in a taxi on the way to Nairobi Hospital.

Mrs Mary Deya said she went into labour while attending another child theft case at the High Court on September 9, 2005.

“I stayed in court until evening and afterwards went shopping but it rained heavily,” she told Kibera senior principal magistrate Grace Nzioka.

“It rained until 10pm and when the pain became unbearable I took a taxi to go to the Nairobi Hospital. I delivered the baby before arriving at the hospital,” she testified.

“At the hospital, doctors took me and my baby into a ward. They cut the placenta and gave me an injection,” she said.

Mrs Deya added that she was taken to Kenyatta National Hospital where she was admitted after she failed to raise Sh75,000 for admission at the Nairobi Hospital.

The following day at 10 am police arrested her while the baby was placed in a nursery.

Defence lawyer Elisha Ongaya asked for more time for submissions.

His application was granted and the case adjourned until Tuesday next week.

Mrs Deya was put on her defence after the close of prosecution’s case. The State had proved that she had a case to answer on three counts.

“The evidence leads one to ask: Did Mrs Deya give birth to a baby boy on September 10, 2005 as alleged? If not, then where did she get the baby?” the prosecutor Chief Inspector Bridgit Kanyai asked.

Mrs Deya is accused of stealing a child at Kenyatta National Hospital on September 10, 2005.

She has asked the court to free her for lack of evidence.

The wife of the UK-based preacher said none of the 14 prosecution witnesses had linked her to theft of the baby.

But the prosecutor said Mrs Deya visited a Dr Wanjala’s clinic claiming to be pregnant but he found that she was not.