Pastor Mackenzie Hired Bouncers, Armed Goons, Gave Them 3-Star Meals- Kindiki
The meals, which were prepared in line with the standards of cuisines served at 3-star hotels, consisting of proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins.
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Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, on Friday, May 26, claimed that Pastor Mackenzie of Good News International Church had contracted bouncers, scouts and armed gangs to help him supervise his followers who were fasting in Shakahola Forest, Kilifi County.
Appearing before the Committee on the Proliferation of Religious Organisations, which is investigating the Shakahola deaths, Kindiki also revealed that the controversial pastor had a menu tailored especially to all his bouncers and that the team enjoyed different balanced diet meals from Monday to Sunday.
The meals, which were prepared in line with the standards of cuisines served at 3-star hotels, consisting of proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins.
Scattered household items at Pastor Paul Mackenzie's house in Shakahola Forest discovered on Thursday, May 25, 2023. /FACEBOOK.KITHURE KINDIKI
"But in the process, they are just cooking all manners of food. In fact, in one structure, we found a very organised menu running from Monday to Monday.
"Three meals and well balanced. It is like a three-star hotel menu and apparatus for cooking were available there, showing they were eating a balanced diet," Kindiki revealed.
According to the CS, the bouncers helped him monitor his believers and followers starving to death and they were under instructions to strangle some victims who had taken time to die.
The bouncers would also dig graves in advance and prepared Mackenzie's followers to starve. What shocked Kindiki during his visit to Pastor Mackenzie's home deep in the Shakahola Forest was that the bouncers were preparing their meals on the graveside.
"Mackenzie had employed armed criminals to supervise starvation; if anyone changed their mind, they would be strangled, clobbered or otherwise killed.
"The scouts and the bouncers supervising the death of our people were actually cooking on the graveside. They would dig graves in advance and then prepare people to starve to death, and if, for whatever reason, you change your mind or you are taking too long, they would kill you," he added.
His revelations came following his visit to the homestead which came complete with a dam to provide water for irrigation, which was discovered alongside the temporary structure.
Kindiki also revealed that some of the victims in the Shakahola massacre were foreigners who had travelled from neighbouring countries and that most of his followers resided outside Kilifi County.
He also noted that some of the Shakahola locals avoided Mackenzie's church after learning of his antics. Mackenzie had convinced his followers that the world was to come to an end in June 2023 and that it was vital for them to avoid eating and be ready to die.
The CS made reference to a report from government pathologist, Johansen Odour which revealed that some of the victims had died of starvation while others were killed by strangulation, some of the former doing it on their own volition.
"Postmortems on the recovered bodies reveal that most of the victims died of starvation, but many more also died through asphyxiation; some were strangled with bare hands while others were strangled with wires. Others were hit with blunt objects.
"Some of the victims were indoctrinated and radicalised and voluntarily agreed not to eat or drink until they die so that they could meet their creator," he noted.
Kindiki further noted that most of the victims joined Mackenzie's cult in 2023, which would have manifested into an international organised crime had the government not responded on time.
