22 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Kenyan Police have found at least 17 dead buried in mass graves on land owned by Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, self-proclaimed leader of the Kilifi sect, currently in jail on suspicion of influencing his followers to fast until dawn. death.
Investigators have found at least 32 mass graves on Mackenzie’s estate in the coastal city of Malindi, of which at least twenty remain to be unearthed.
Mackenzie, head of the so-called International Church of Good News, turned himself in for the first time to the Police after two children died of starvation in front of their parents, members of the sect.
After being released on bail, he was arrested again on April 15 and has now started a hunger strike to protest against the treatment he received, reports the Kenyan newspaper ‘The Nation’.
Eleven other members of the sect or their children are admitted in serious condition, three of them in critical condition, after being found languishing in a forest at the beginning of the investigations into the mass graves.