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Kenyan police have exhumed 26 more bodies near the coastal town of Malindi, as they investigate a preacher said to have told followers to starve to death.

Dead children were among those exhumed, and police said they expected to find even more bodies.

The shallow graves are in Shakahola forest, where 15 members of the Good News International Church were rescued last week.

Preacher Paul Mackenzie Nthenge is in custody, pending a court appearance.

State broadcaster KBC described him as a "cult leader", and reported that 58 graves have so far been identified.

One of the graves is believed to contain the bodies of five members of the same family - three children and their parents.

Mr Mackenzie has denied wrongdoing, but has been refused bail. He insists that he shut down his church in 2019.

He allegedly told followers to starve themselves in order to "meet Jesus".

The Kenyan daily The Standard said pathologists will take DNA samples and conduct tests to determine whether the victims died of starvation.

Police arrested Mr Mackenzie on 15 April after discovering the bodies of four people suspected of having starved themselves to death.

Victor Kaudo of the Malindi Social Justice Centre told Citizen TV "when we are in this forest and come to an area where we see a big and tall cross, we know that means more than five people are buried there".

The preacher allegedly named three villages Nazareth, Bethlehem and Judea and baptised followers in ponds before telling them to fast, The Standard reports.

Kenya is a religious country and there have been previous cases of people being lured into dangerous, unregulated churches or cults.

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1650190884497940480?t=iG_EtFxobGh3IVToyAXcMA&s=19

We have set up tracing and counselling desks at the Malindi Sub-County Hospital for the Shakahola response.

So far 112 people have been reported missing at the tracing desk.

https://twitter.com/KenyaRedCross/status/1650146090543464448?t=ivEA5Z4KcgxX1bpLZRwj1g&s=19

Fools disguising as people worshipping God.

Sometimes I doubt stories like this
But Omo the stupidity and gullibility of some people is top notch 😑

They won't read their Bibles to know the truth for themselves. These ones have paid the price for their ignorance with their own lives.

Most people are so ignorant that they'll even be asking very foolish questions about God. They allow scammers disguised as true pastors to scam their souls.

Religion is the opium of the masses truely.

Christianity is the life of Christ.

False prophets.
Lies and elusion.....

Righteousness2 come oOoOO oOoOOh

I thought I've seen it all in this religious matters.
There's spiritual or a kind of magical powers in this matter; cos I don't understand how a mental stable human will starved him/herself to to dead at the instructions of another foolishness mad man

Alright

Brain Wash

Endtime Pastors

This is not a church

Where in the scripture did they ask Christians to starve to death?

This is demons taken over the mind of the preacher and followers

Scary indeed....

OK, at least they've gone to visit their own version of Jesus.

RamseyKush:
Sometimes I doubt stories like this
But Omo the stupidity and gullibility of some people is top notch 😑

this are not ordinary. there are powers used by this people to hold their followers and its like a cult. where their leaders will tell them the future using powers beyond...


I have seen a ministry where members are told to take sands from the church use it to Bath, drink this sands.

APC

haba... this is too much na... this is very bad o... Africa sef

bury the bastard alive

Lol. Why are the Christians on these thread denying the pastor and saying"this is not Christianity"?🤣
Hypocrites. How's it not Christianity when the pastor used the same bible to deceive them. I've said it severally, the average Christian is deluded and can be easily deceived. Imagine these ones too.

The pastor held the bible, quoted some verses about fasting, listening to God and other trash talk you can find in the Bible.
Hebrew 13:17"Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you" so according to the bible here you must obey even if your pastor say you should jump into a burning fire! 🤣

Here's another trash from the bible"When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full."
Matthew 6:16. So they were only following the bible.

Sigh

Foolish religion, foolish pastor, foolish people

Kill the lunatic

normally, all the dead people no suppose rest in peace. very mumu people

They're all insane...

this is the version of religion practised in South West Nigeria...

Sad

Some people especially ladies are so dumb when it comes to obeying Pastors than God.. Drink gutter water, they'll drink it

RamseyKush:
Sometimes I doubt stories like this
But Omo the stupidity and gullibility of some people is top notch 😑

No doubt am oooh. This kind of stuff happened in America a lot in the 80s and 90s.

That's when you'll understand that when it comes to religion, people can become very stupid and senseless.

zombieHUNTER:
They're all insane...

this is the version of religion practised in South West Nigeria...

u no gree call the pastor Christian terrorist

Brainwashed people are like these , are many in Nigeria too. Always believe what their useless pastors and imams says.

Nonsense

I no understand

Fake jesus full kenya sha

Dayummmm

Oga o. How would someone instruct me to starve myself to the point of death. Some people are gullible sha.