Kenya’s government said that Shakahola forest, a remote scrubland where authorities have recovered the bodies of at least 250 adherents of pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie’s apparent end-times starvation cult — would be converted into a national memorial.
After the search for survivors and for bodies concludes, a multifaith ceremony will be held at the site, Kindiki said, “to secure the sacred right and freedom of worship that has been violated by crooks hiding behind scriptures to radicalise and indoctrinate their followers.”
In 2017, he was arrested in connection to the death of children in his congregation but freed on bail. In 2019, Malindi residents drove him out, burning his church in the Madumbuni area. Malanda Karisa, 33, who lives nearby, said locals tried to storm the forest to figure out what was going on but were turned away by Mackenzie’s followers, who were armed.
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