‘Leader’ of Good News cult whose disciples ‘starved themselves to death’ unmasked after 429 bodies found in mass graves | F83N520 | 2024-01-22 19:08:01
'Leader' of Good News cult whose disciples 'starved themselves to death' unmasked after 429 bodies found in mass graves | F83N520 | 2024-01-22 19:08:01
Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie allegedly advised his disciples at the Good News Worldwide Church to organize to "meet JesusR
A CULT leader who reportedly incited his followers to starve themselves to demise has been unmasked after mass graves have been uncovered.
Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie allegedly advised his disciples at the Good News Worldwide Church to organize to "meet Jesus" in a case that shocked the world.
Mackenzie, together with more than 90 others, will probably be charged with homicide, manslaughter, radicalisation, cruelty and baby torture, among other crimes.
It comes after 429 butchered and buried bodies have been discovered in Shakahola forest, south east Kenya in April, the country's director of public prosecutions stated on Tuesday.
While most showed indicators of hunger, many our bodies, particularly those of youngsters, had markings in step with strangulation and suffocation.
Titus Katana, an ex-member and deputy pastor advised The Times that the youngsters have been ordered to starve themselves first.
He stated: "They have been shut in huts for five days with out meals or water. Then they wrapped them in blankets and buried them, even those still respiration."
The cult leader has denied the fees, asserting he couldn't have been cognizant of the deaths as he closed his church down 5 years ago.
Mackenzie is presently in jail after he was convicted of spearheading an unlawful movie studio for his church in November.
Kenya has an extended historical past of self-declared pastors and cult-like movements.
There are more than four,000 church buildings registered in the East African nation of 53 million individuals, in accordance with authorities figures.
Mulele Ingonga, a Kenyan prosecution official, introduced forward the fees towards Mackenzie following threats by& a magistrate within the coastal county of Kilifi that the courtroom would release him inside two weeks if he didn't.
Cops began investigating the Good Information Worldwide Church after investigators rescued 15 emaciated members from the parish following a tipoff from an area rights group.
Four later died, but some surviving members advised investigators that Mackenzie had urged them to starve themselves to dying with a purpose to be reunited with Jesus.
The tipoff additionally alluded to shallow graves piled excessive with at the very least 31 of the church's followers.
Mackenzie turned himself into a police station earlier than the mass graves have been discovered, however was later released on bail for less than £600.
A Senate commission of inquiry reported in October that Mackenzie had faced costs again in 2017 for his excessive preaching.
"(However) the legal justice system failed to deter the heinous activities of Paul Mackenzie in Shakahola," it stated.
Kenya's inside secretary Kithure Kindiki described the case as "the clearest abuse of the constitutionally enshrined human right to freedom of worship."
The horrific saga has surprised Kenyans and led President William Ruto to arrange a fee of inquiry into the deaths and a process pressure to evaluate laws governing spiritual bodies.
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