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The nightmare took place in a forest near the town of Malindi in Kenya. It is there that the police have already dug up 47 bodies of sect members. The preacher Paul Makenzi was to sentence them to death by starvation “in the name of Jesus”. On Sunday, Charles Kamau, who led the investigation, admitted that there could be many more victims. The forest area was closed for exhumation.
The cult leader was arrested twice
During the investigation, it turned out that the pastor had already been arrested twice in connection with the deaths of children. First he was arrested in 2019, then in March this year. He was released twice on bail. When the police raided his property after receiving a report from the human rights organization Haki Africa, they found 15 people devastated by starvation. Four of them could not be saved. Makenzi refused to eat or drink after being arrested. This time the court refused to release the man on bail.
Living members of the sect may be hiding in the forest
The authorities hope to find living cult members in the forest, but time is of the essence. “There are still other people out there… and they are probably dying every second that passes,” said Hussein Khalid, representative of Haki Africa. Makenzi denies the allegations and says he closed his church four years ago.
According to news reported by The Standard, the preacher allegedly named three Kenyan villages: Nazareth, Bethlehem and Judea, and then baptized his followers in a pond. The next step was fasting. The bodies of a man, a woman and three children buried in the same grave were the first to be found. They were probably family.
Source: Gazeta
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