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Rival pastors in Kiambu now denounce Muthee for his treatment of Mama Jane.

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Evangelical Christian churches have become incredibly popular – there are 500 churches in Kiambu alone – but some religious leaders still exploit their followers’ traditional belief in witchcraft and sorcery.

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A pastor visiting from Kiambu, Kenya named Thomas Muthee who gained fame within Pentecostal circles by claiming that he defeated a local witch, Mama Jane, in a great spiritual battle, blesses Sarah Palin.

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Bishop Thomas Muthee staked his early reputation in the town of Kiambu on boasts that he banished a witch named Mama Jane, whom he blamed for crime, traffic accidents and public drunkenness in town.

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But sometimes spiritual warfare becomes physical conflict, as in the case of, the old woman in Thomas Muthee's Nairobi suburb of Kiambu, accused of witchcraft and then hounded out of town.

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While a number of media outlets have featured stories of Muthee's witch hunting exploits in Kiambu, Bishop Muthee is not just any witch hunter.

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The bishop claimed that he had personally battled a witch in his hometown of Kiambu, Kenya, driving the evildoer from the town and thereby ending an epidemic of crime and licentiousness.

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Thomas Muthee became briefly notorious during the 2008 election, for his claim to have driven a "witch" from Kiambu, a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya.

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The episode was later revealed as a farce by a reporter from Women's eNews who traveled to Kiambu and found the supposed witch, a local healer named Mama Jane, still living happily in her compound.

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In the video, Muthee claimed that he and his church members drove a witch out of Kiambu, a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya; after the witch fled, claimed Muthee, the crime rate plummeted, rates of substance abuse such as alcohol addiction fell precipitously, and most of the residents of Kiambu joined churches.

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