26 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Government of Kenya has imposed this Wednesday a 30-day curfew on the land that is being excavated after locating several mass graves of people who died from fasting promoted by the leader of a Christian sect with the aim of “finding Jesus Christ”. .
Kenyan Home Minister Kithure Kindiki has indicated that the measure will be in force at Chakama Ranch, in Shakahola village, between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. (local time), before adding that “there should be no public gatherings , processions or movements alone or in groups during the curfew”.
Thus, he has stressed that the only movements that will be authorized will be those that have written permission from the Kilifi County Police, something that is extensible to meetings in public spaces, as reported by the Kenyan newspaper ‘The Standard’.
“The area is a zone of active security operations and access to the public should not be allowed as of today, April 26, 2026, unless there is an order from the commander or until these orders are annulled,” it has settled. The Kenyan Home Minister.
Hours earlier, the Ministry of the Interior had indicated in a message on its Twitter account that the Sakahola ranch “has been closed and declared a crime scene to allow homicide detectives to obtain information about the horrible deaths of followers of the International Church of Good News, while the authorities continue to exhume more bodies of victims of (Paul) Mackenzie’s teachings and ideologies.
The Kenyan authorities on Tuesday raised to 90 the bodies found in these mass graves. Kindiki himself said on Tuesday during a visit to the area that “this has been a misuse of the fundamental rights of freedom with the alleged use of the Bible to kill and cause a massacre.” “Those who urged others to fast and die were eating and drinking and intended to prepare them to meet their creator,” he charged.
Likewise, the Kenyan Red Cross has started work to try to locate more than 210 people -among them 112 minors- who have been reported missing in the framework of investigations into this sect, as has been reported. informed the newspaper ‘The Star’.
Mackenzie, arrested on April 14 after the existence of mass graves in the area was confirmed, is being held with thirteen other people ahead of a hearing to be held on May 2. Kenyan President William Ruto said Monday that what he saw on the sect’s grounds is “akin to terrorism.”
