Self-proclaimed Kenyan cult chief Paul Nthenge Mackenzie has been charged with the deaths of 191 individuals by a Kenyan court docket. The chief of the cult, that promoted hunger as a way to get nearer to Jesus, with terrorism, manslaughter in addition to youngster torture and cruelty. He’s a self-proclaimed pastor.
In line with an AFP report, Mackenzie and 29 different suspects pleaded not responsible to the fees. A couple of week in the past, a Kenyan court docket described Good Information Worldwide Ministries based by Mackenzie as “an organised felony group (which) engaged in organised felony actions”.
Kenya, a largely Christian nation, has not been in a position to maintain cults and unscrupulous church buildings that dabble in felony exercise in verify. How Mackenzie managed to evade regulation enforcement regardless of earlier circumstances, is being questioned.
Nearly all of the 429 victims died of hunger. Others appeared to have been strangled, suffocated or crushed to death– these included youngsters. In 2017, Mackenzie was acquitted of expenses of radicalisation for illegally offering faculty educating after rejecting the formal instructional system that he claimed was not in keeping with the Bible. In 2019, he was accused of hyperlinks to the loss of life of two youngsters who have been reportedly starved, suffocated after which buried in a shallow grave in Shakahola. He hasn’t been tried for these expenses but.