A 54-year-old university lecturer claims she was miraculously healed of HIV after attending Prophet David Owuor’s prayer crusades. According to the Nairobian, a Kenyan tabloid, Dr Nancy Omronji, a mother of two who has served for 32 years as a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Department of Applied Community Development Studies at Egerton University, Kenya says, “I had HIV, but God took away my shame. I am not afraid or ashamed to say I was healed.”
The tabloid also reports that in 2006, Dr Omronji cliams she started suffering from frequent respiratory tract infections and severe headaches, general weakness, fainting attacks and also developed rashes that were not responding to treatment.That April, she confronted her worst fears and requested her doctor for a HIV test. Dr Singo, a physician at Nakuru Medical Centre Laboratories, tested her using Determine test and Standard Diagnostic (Bio-line) method. She was HIV positive.
“Life lost meaning and as sickness progressed, I started preparing for death by selling off investments that I thought the children would not need. But I came back to my senses and turned to God. I heard from my friends Sabina and Jane that there is a prophet in whose meetings signs and wonders occur, and that where he ministers, many diseases are healed. So I attended the prophet’s rallies,” says Omronji.
She started following Prophet Owuor’s meetings hoping for a miracle and, she claims, a symptom would disappear after each meeting whenever Prophet Owuor prayed for the sick. See also: Why the ‘mpango wa kando’ ad stayed on “After the Kandui crusade, my skin rash disappeared. At the Kabarnet meeting held on September 2006, the severe headaches ceased! After the 2007 June Nakuru meeting, I regained my strength,” claims the don.
DNA test
On July 21, 2008, a confident Omronji walked into Nakuru Medical Centre Laboratory, Kenya and asked Dr Joseph Singo to re-examine her blood. The doctor took several tests, not believing the results. Nancy had turned HIV Negative even with DNA PCR test. Unlike the normal HIV tests that can only read if the virus is in the blood after three months, DNA PCR test can detect HIV virus in the blood even if a person was infected a day ago. Dr Singo was so shocked that he converted into Christianity and got saved. According to Dr Omronji’s medical records, which The Nairobian followed up on to confirm with permission from both doctor and patient, Omronji was tested DNA/PCR in Aga Khan University Hospital Department of Pathology as patient number 767272 on 13th November, 2010 and the results were
negative.
She then went to Nairobi Hospital for more tests. Under lab ref. No. 91155, more tests were done on March 26, 2011 and the results were negative for DNA PCR. She finally went to MP Shah Hospital for the final tests under lab reference number 42806 on April 1, 2011 and the results were negative for DNA PCR. “I serve a God that cannot be doubted. There is nothing the Lord can’t do. I was healed and I now walk in the way of the Lord,” Omronji. The head of communications at the National Aids Control Council says cure through prayers might be possible, but patients need not stop taking medication. “Being healed through prayers is between you and God, but it’s not a good idea to stop taking ARVs just because you have started praying for healing,” says Jennifer Wambua. She adds that scientifically, Aids has no cure and any patient, no matter their belief in any supernatural being, should never stop taking their medication.
