Pastor T Mwangi Recalls Chilling Childhood Exposure To Drugs and Adult Content In Primary School

Renowned youth minister and Life Transformation Centre (LTC) founder Anthony Kahura Mwangi, popularly known as Pastor T, has shared a raw account of his early childhood, detailing premature exposure to narcotics and explicit content during his primary school years.

Speaking during a vulnerable interview on digital media personality Lady Bishop Kathy Kiuna’s platform, the vocal preacher traced his spiritual and psychological battles back to accidental and forced encounters with adult materials while he was still a young boy.

Trapped by Older Students in Class Four

Pastor T disclosed that his first encounter with explicit content occurred completely by accident when he was just a Class Four pupil. He had fallen asleep in a community video hall while watching a standard movie, only to wake up to a radically altered environment.

“I watched my first [adult film] when I was in class four,” Pastor T revealed. “I remember I slept in the hall because the movie was boring, so I slept. When I woke up, there was no one in the hall. Apparently, what used to happen is guys would leave, and Class Seven and Eight would come back and now watch their stuff.”

Upon waking up alone, the young boy realized the screen was displaying explicit content. However, before he could escape, older pupils returned and trapped him inside the hall to protect their own secrets.

“Some people realised there is a class four here with us, so it was mandatory [to stay]. When they are going, I have to go so that again I don’t become a snitch. They knew if I left early, I would go and say what they were watching,” he added.

The Spiritual and Psychological Toll

Reflecting on the encounter from a theological and psychological perspective, the televangelist described the immediate aftermath of that exposure as a deeply distressing period that fractured his childhood innocence.

“It was very radical, a lot of tormenting, and I sensed like a door was opened in the spirit,” the preacher explained. “And now when I come to later understand spiritually is when I realise it’s a door that was actually opened at a very young age.”

Encountering Weed and Heroin in Class Seven

Beyond explicit media, Pastor T opened up about his early proximity to the underbelly of drug abuse, revealing that he witnessed hard drugs being smuggled into primary school dormitories long before he entered high school.

His early appointment to student leadership roles gave him full oversight of the student body, unintentionally exposing him to the substance abuse struggles of his peers.

“As early as class seven, because of managing the whole school and knowing everybody, I saw weed in school, and I saw heroin in school—that is primary,” he confessed. “There was a young boy from Nairobi who used to come with drugs, and he was hooked to heroin.”

Pastor T, who now heavily targets his evangelical ministry toward reclaiming youth from substance addiction and urban crime, noted that these intense childhood experiences are what fueled his passion for modern-day youth mentorship, enabling him to approach rehabilitation with deep empathy and firsthand understanding of the traps facing young learners.