The Federation of Evangelical and Indigenous Christian Churches of Kenya (FEICCK) has challenged the Catholic Church to table evidence that it returned the Sh 2.6 million contributed by President William Ruto late last year.

FEICCK chairperson Bishop Samuel Ngacha Njiriri says that although the Catholic Church had claimed to have declined the contribution, he has reliable information that the money was never returned to the President and Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja.

The federation has also told politicians opposed to their colleagues financially assisting in the growth of churches not to get worried as nobody has coerced them into making any contribution.

The federation has also thrown its weight behind the new found political bond between President Ruto and ODM leader Raila Odinga, saying it would end political animosity and tension in the country.

Bishop Njiriri who is also the head of the Stewards Revival Pentecostal Church (SRPC) claimed that the Catholic Church hoodwinked Kenyans with mere threats of declining the contribution that it never returned at all.

“Let them tell to whom they returned the money and who received it. We have evidence in our possession that there was no money returned,” he says.

Last November, the Nairobi Catholic archdiocese stirred controversy when it issued a statement indicating it had declined about Sh 2.6 million contribution from President Ruto and Sakaja to the church in Nairobi’s Soweto.

President Ruto’s donation had included Sh2 million for the construction of the parish priest’s house with a pledge of an additional Sh3 million to complete the project and Sh600,000 for the church choir and Parish Missionary Council (PMC).