Pastor James Ng'ang'a has been charged with threatening to kill Citizen TV journalist Linus Kaikai.

He is also charged with incitement to violence and disobedience of the law.

The magistrate ordered him to be released on a cash bail of Sh200,000, pending mention of the case on April 3.

Ng’ang’a of Neno Evangelism Centre was on Sunday night arrested for threatening journalist Kaikai.

Ng'ang'a was picked up from his church at the junction of Haile Sellasie Avenue and Uhuru Highway and locked up at Muthaiga police station.

This was after  Kaikai had complained he felt threatened by video footage that the pastor had produced attacking him.

Kaikai, who is a panellist on the news show News Gang, went viral with his call to regulate pastors whom he called spiritual fraudsters profiting off unsuspecting Kenyans.