Pastor Mugo in Dallas Sues People In Kenya To Keep Donation Share!!

The Rt. Rev. John A. Herzog, OSA

Donation row over 10,000 dollars contributed to bond out a Dallas pastor who had spent a month at Haskell Detention Center has taken another turn. According to the law suit filed at Collin County Court in December10, 2010, Revered Pastor John Mugo is now suing a former treasurer of his church on claims that the former secretary to the church was the signatory of the $10,000 that the well-wishers contributed to bond him out. The pastor alleges that he should keep all the money..

 The pastor now alleges that it belongs to him even after the case was dismissed.  The lady who is being sued by Pastor Revered Mugo went back to Kenya for good about 6 months ago. The new turn of events seems to be a new chapter on the career of Dallas pastor who is no stranger to jails and the justice system. According to the local Kenyans in the Dallas Metroplex, the new turn of the events has shocked even those who had little sympathy for the self-proclaimed revered. The twist in the story is that the same female being sued by Pastor Mugo, is the same person who invited and hosted the pastor in the United States! The pastor was accommodated by the female defendant until he was able to move out with his friends according to reliable sources.

Although pastor Revered Mugo is suing for 10,000 dollars which was donated by well-wishers to bond him out of Detention, 3 of the local churches have already refunded 1700 dollars each after he harassed the local pastors to get the money back. The pastor is alleging that he has the blessings of his Bishop to go after the money, although the senior leadership of the Anglican Church did not contribute any money to help in his legal troubles when he was in jail. Pastor Mugo practices under the license of The Rt. Rev. John A. Herzog, OSA  who is based in New York. The case is scheduled to go for trial in early summer.

Dallas Pastor Sues to Get Donation Money!

My Sunday school teacher used to tell us this: ‘‘God is too slow, but He is never late!”. Almost one year ago today, we organized almost everyone with a soul and a pause to help assist one of our own, Rev. John Mugo Mwangi to rescue him from the jaws of immigration jail where he was

languishing for imagining an idea of planting a church without the blessings of his senior pastor. We all know the people suspected of putting him there, but that is beside the point here.
I am not writing to defend Rev Ngubia for his failed tricks which by God did not work. We all worked together to pull a man from jail so that he can have a fair trial. As naive as we were, we contributed enough money to the tune of 10,000 dollars! (That is about 800,000 shillings for those who are poor in math like me). The money was used to secure the bond so that Mugo could fight his case in court as a free man. I believe many of us would agree it's better to be perceived as guilty in the streets of Dallas than being innocent but in jail.

What’s my point in this story? .... The man is out of jail...... the case was dismissed. The bond money was refunded....where did the money go??? Apparently, for the sake of transparency, the committee that was in charge of the Harambee immediately after the case on Mr. Mugo was dismissed, the checks were mailed, and Mr. Mugo also received a check equal for his church just like the other five churches; 1700 dollars. End of story to most people, not so first especially for someone with Pastor Mugo IQ.
You may think that any sane person after sitting at Haskell Detention center for a month would worry more about his current status or to give thanks to the people who spent hours of selfless hours to get him out of jail or worse request the remaining balance to be refunded to the people who contributed the money.
Early this month, barely one year and six months from his release, Mr. Mugo filed a case in Collin County court demanding the 10,000 that was raised to his name to be given turned over to him. On his court pleading, Mr. Mugo alleges that he is demanding ALL that money was stolen from him while in jail, not to mention on the day he went to jail, he was pulled out by the immigration officers out  of a 7-11 store where he worked as a cashier barely making $8.50 per hour. He is even suing not for 10,300 less the 1700 he received, nope, and he wants the whole 10,000. Yap, the who whole 10,000!
Mr. Mugo has had the bold nerves to intimidate one local pastor who easily had the decency to refund” his” money as he claims. Now, he has gotten even bolder, he is suing the person who bonded him out for the 10,000. As of yesterday, he was meeting with the leadership of another local church where he was demanding another of "his" 1700 dollars. As an insurance card, the case for the whole amount (10000) is still pending in court!
I want everyone to hold their peace as I asked a simple question. When we as a society are confronted by numnuts of leaders like this, what do we do? Don't get me wrong. Everything Mugo knows about Churches and pastoralism in America is only what he did learn under the mentor ship of non-other than Rev Ngubia. We all know that an apple does not fall far away from the tree. One, we need more than courage: we need innovation. Let me explain using the story of Gorgon Medusa, the most destructive monster in Greek mythology. When I read this story, it describes most of our church leaders today, the monsters before us.

According to the mythology, Instead of hair the Medusa had large spitting snakes crawling over her face. The face itself was so ugly that anyone who looked at her turned into a stone. No amount of courage would dislodge her. But one warrior by the name of Perseus came up with an innovation. He polished his brass shield to the point that it looked like a mirror and then approached her with his face covered by the shield. All the Medusa could see was her ugly image with snakes slithering all over her face. And the more she looked at this image, the more irate she became. At the height of her rage and confusion, Perseus emerged from underneath the shield and promptly destroyed her.
We all know that this kind of greed and madness will not take him far. But how do we stop these acts from happening again? First we need to know that this is who this people are. Do not be fooled by titles and the long robes they wear on Sundays. This nature of greed is their character. For us to understand this kind of people, we need to understand what motivates them. First of all, I may be wrong, but i really doubt that he is pulling this stunt by himself. This kind of behavior only thrives if this kind of behavior and thinking is encouraged by a group of people who believes like him.

We need to hold a mirror against the ‘‘medusas’’ over the cheap infighting and scandals here in America for so long. This monster is irritated beyond. There are enough symptoms of this if one looks closely. We call upon any follower of his man, or anyone with a sense of decency to talk to him. There is a certain level of greed that is beyond human comprehension. Even a hyena as greedy as he is known would not eat his own children... but this crop of leaders would just do that.'

But can we change them or what do we do as a society? To answer your question, let me narrate a story about a famous Nigerian wise man that moved from village to village answering complex questions. But one day, he met his match: a clever Yoruba boy. The boy had a butterfly in his hand and was out to prove him wrong. He was going to ask the wise man if the butterfly was dead or alive.

If he said it was dead, he would release it; if he said it was alive, he would squeeze it to death. Either way, the wise man would lose. And so the boy cut through the crowds and confronted the wise man with a question:“… Dead or Alive?” The wise man was puzzled. He examined the boy wisely and after a few minutes, he told him: “… it all depends on you!”

I think that it all depends on us as a people to either tolerate this kind of madness, or to call this crooks out by the bull horns so that those people who may not know their wicked ways to judge them from their actions.

We call upon the Kenyan Diaspora to take the time for the New Year and reflect on our leaders, so that we can forge a better community as Kenyans.