The outspoken leader of the Glory of Christ church was nabbed by airport police as he was about to hop onto his helicopter shortly after arriving at JNIA from Nairobi, police and other sources confirmed.
According to the airport police commander Martin Otieno, Gwajima was arrested at around 8 a.m. “Upon arresting him, we handled him to the Dar es Salaam police special zone where he was interrogated,” Otieno told The Guardian.
But when contacted for comment, special zone police commander Simon Siro appeared to listen carefully to our reporter’s questions, only to subsequently respond that he was in a meeting and there were too many people around so he couldn’t speak comfortably.
Gwajima’s lawyer Peter Kibatala also confirmed that his client underwent police questioning and was released at around lunch-time.
“That’s what I can say,” Kibatala said. Prompted further, the lawyer said he did not know whether his client would be charged in court or not because that was now for the police to decide.
The controversial spiritual leader entered the scope of the police radar after allegedly uttering ‘seditious’ sounding words during one of his church sermons some weeks ago.
Police announced that they were looking for Gwajima, but he later told them through his lawyer that he had left the country and requested them to bear with him as he intended to report voluntarily to the police upon his return.
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