A Kenyan evangelical pastor admits that 15 of his faithful have died during his “spiritual interventions”

29 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Kenyan televangelist Ezekiel Odero has admitted to the Police that 15 of his followers have died during his “spiritual interventions” in his religious center in Malindi, the same municipality where the Kenyan security forces have found more than a hundred deceased on the grounds of another cult leader.

Odero is currently being detained as part of a large operation against Christian sects following the discovery of more than twenty mass graves on the farm of cultist Paul Mackenzie –arrested in the middle of this month– who asked his followers fast to death to “find Jesus Christ”.

Now, the televangelist Odero has admitted the deaths of his followers during the year that his Center for Prayer and Church for a New Life has been open in Malindi, although his lawyers have wanted to clarify that the deceased were already “in critical condition”. when they arrived at the religious center.

“When these people die, the Police are informed of their deaths. We are not aware of any case of deaths in which the security forces have not been informed,” his legal team has indicated in statements collected by the newspaper ‘The Nation’.

The Kenyan Prosecutor’s Office has not been satisfied with these arguments and directly links Odero with Mackenzie as a result of past businesses they had together, such as a television channel that both paid for half to communicate “radical messages to their followers.”

For this reason, Odero is now under investigation for a wide variety of charges: murder, kidnapping, radicalization, genocide, crimes against humanity, child cruelty, fraud or money laundering, among others.

The televangelist is now awaiting a court ruling on May 2 to determine whether he continues to be detained for another 30 days in the cells of a police station in the city of Mombasa.