Kenya starvation cult: Dozens of bodies recovered on cult leader’s land

Kenyan police dug up dozens of our bodies over the weekend on land owned by a cult chief who allegedly informed his followers to starve themselves to dying with the intention to go to heaven, police stated. 

At the very least 46 our bodies have been exhumed from shallow unmarked graves within the Shakahola forest close to Kilifi, a coastal city in eastern Kenya, in accordance with the Kenya Broadcasting Company. All the 800-acre forest has been sealed off and declared a criminal offense scene. 

Paul Makenzi, the pastor accused of main the cult, was arrested on April 14. Makenzi was already beneath investigation after a 2019 arrest in reference to the deaths of kids. He was arrested once more in March, however was launched on bond each occasions.  

4 different individuals died after they had been discovered ravenous final week at his Good Information Worldwide Church. Police additionally discovered 11 emaciated individuals on the compound after members of the general public tipped them off concerning the cult. 

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Kenya is a extremely non secular nation, with roughly 85.5% of Kenyans figuring out as Christian and 11% as Muslim, in accordance with the U.S. State Division. 

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Kithure Kindiki, the Kenyan Cupboard Secretary for Inside, known as the cult an “abuse of the constitutionally enshrined human proper to freedom of worship.”

“Whereas the State stays respectful of spiritual freedom, this horrendous blight on our conscience should lead not solely to probably the most extreme punishment of the perpetrator(s) of the atrocity on so many harmless souls, however tighter regulation (together with self-regulation) of each church, mosque, temple or synagogue going ahead,” Kindiki stated in a press release obtained by the Kenya Broadcasting Company.

The Related Press contributed to this report.