By The Anchor Writer
Nominated Wiper Member of the Machakos County Assembly Dee Kivuva was on Sunday excommunicated from the African Brotherhood Church.
Dee was expelled from the church following his public appeal last week, targeting the top hierarchy of the church against rampant demands for money from its congregations.
The forum - a burial ceremony for Machakos trader Jimmy Kathuli - was also attended by local leaders and clergy.
He pointedly urged the ABC church followers to warn the top leadership on the issue of asking for money so often.
Dee is an outspoken MCA and a long-term active member of the church whose wife is a high-ranking minister of the ABC.
Last sunday, the Church's Archbishop Dr. Timothy Ndambuki did not disguise his rage towards Dee's utterances, which were made last Wednesday.
He termed these utterances as a show of disrespect to the church and its leadership and swiftly declared that Dee had been excommunicated.
The church has an elaborate process it follows to excommunicate its members , and it appears that this may not have been followed.
It exposes Dr. Ndambuki's rising intolerance to criticism at a time observers are murmering against a spirited scheme to install his wife, who presided over the burial, as his possible successor. She is currently the ABC Bishop of Nairobi.
Archbishop Ndambuki went further to fire a salvo at the Wiper party, saying Dee's behaviour is characteristic of the party, adding that his personal matters were at some point discussed by some members of this party, whom he did not name. He cited this as a reason why he does not get along with Wiper these days.
He left the congregation wondering if the excommunication was based on broken church rules, political or just parochial.
Dee is known as Kalonzo Musyoka's hatchet man, and it is most likely that the jibe against Wiper is aimed at the top party brass.
