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Napata77:Indeed, no naira got missing in fact we know where all our money is but no one can dear challenge Tinubu to empty is pocket for checking. |
U09ce:And yoy know you are talking of one in hundreds if no act of stealing is attached. in fact, its easy to mention more than 1000 investors on entrepreneur who get rich than to mention 10 civil servants who doesn't attach stealing. |
omoadeleye:Is this what the Christians call religion? Kenyan Pastor Convicted For Ordering 191 Followers To Starve To Death by Mattswaggz(op): 11:35am A Kenyan pastor, Paul Mackenzie, has been convicted of murdering 191 people, including 190 children, after directing members of his religious cult to starve their children to death to “meet Jesus”. The BBC reported on Monday that 28 other leaders of the cult were also convicted of murder. All the defendants had pleaded not guilty, repeatedly insisting that nobody was forced to die. Delivering an eight-hour judgement in the port city of Mombasa, Justice Diana Mochache said Mackenzie’s followers believed he was “Jesus’s mouthpiece”. One of his co-accused told the court that Mackenzie had instructed his followers that anyone who refused to fast should be compelled to do so through violence. The co-accused said anyone who “resisted the directive to fast must be forced to go to heaven through kicks and blows”. The judge said burials in the forest where the cult was based were called “weddings”, adding that those who died “were celebrated as having wedded with Jesus”. Seventeen men were recruited from a nearby town to exhume shallow graves in the forest, with some paid as little as $8 (£6) daily, according to the BBC. One of the gravediggers, identified as James, described the discoveries made during the operation. “Every grave we found had at least three bodies,” James told the BBC. “Some of the remains were of children as young as a few weeks old.” He added, “We once found 12 bodies of children in a line inside a grave. It was massive, the bodies were arranged like clothes. One on top of another.” The gravediggers also described finding children whose “hands and legs tied and bodies wrapped in bedsheets”. Another gravedigger, Salim Karisa, said some of the victims were familiar to residents of neighbouring Shakahola town because cult members visited to buy supplies and fetch water from the River Galana. "We would sometimes carry people on our motorbikes into the forest. But it was so planned and secretive that nobody could tell what was happening inside,” Karisa said. Mackenzie founded Good News International Ministries in 2003. Over the following 16 years, the church attracted thousands of followers through its branches across Kenya. The church operated a television station, Times TV, which broadcast Mackenzie’s sermons from Malindi. His teachings included claims that education was “evil”, healthcare was “against the doctrine” and digital identity cards were “the mark of the devil”. Mackenzie’s son, Dan Paul Mackenzie, said he worked as a cameraperson for the church. “The children would sit at the back, adults in the middle, and everyone would sing worship songs all morning,” he said. The self-proclaimed pastor would begin his sermons at noon, with some sessions involving “casting out demons”. The church’s main branch closed in 2019, after which Mackenzie moved to Shakahola forest and encouraged his followers to join him. Peter Shukrani, 23, moved to the forest with his mother. He had started attending Mackenzie’s church when he was eight and regarded the pastor as his “spiritual father”. Shukrani said he would “never say a bad word about him”. However, Shukrani fell ill in the forest, where medication was prohibited. His condition deteriorated after his mother discarded the medicines he needed. “My mother would throw away all the medicine I was supposed to take because she believe that only God could heal me,” Shukrani said. Describing life in the forest, he said residents lived in mud houses scattered across the vast area. “We lived a quiet normal life, fasting for a few days then having a small meal,” he said. The first remains were discovered by local herders in March 2023, by which time hundreds of people had died. Karisa said some followers were so weak that they died while being carried out of the forest. “We would carry someone out of the forest but they were so frail that they would die in our arms,” he said. Shukrani was among those rescued from the forest. He said he had been bedridden for weeks before his rescue and believed he would have died without intervention. “My mother believed Pastor Mackenzie’s doctrine that medicine was evil. I would have died if I wasn’t rescued from Shakahola forest,” he said. Many of the bodies recovered from the forest remain unidentified because of decomposition. Court documents refer to several victims as “unknown male child”, identifying them by the location of their graves and the dates they were discovered. Despite the suffering endured by the cult members, including people who died from starvation, strangulation and bludgeoning, Shukrani continued to defend Mackenzie before the verdict was announced. He described the pastor as “a good person who cares for me”. “Mackenzie didn’t force anyone to fast. People made those choices by themselves because of their beliefs. I still love him and he is still my pastor,” Shukrani said. Dan Mackenzie, however, believed his father should be convicted of murder, citing his position of authority over the followers. “He was the leader, he was someone who they were looking [up to]. So he is a murderer of mass killing,” he said before the verdict. https://punchng.com/kenyan-pastor-convicted-for-ordering-191-followers-to-starve-to-death/ |
Afriifa:Would you stop saying rubbish when you guys have no Islamic rules. You all cheris this life and what it contains. Anyone who die on prostration has died in a more blessed way. All i have to tell you is that my own is coming and ofcourse your days are numbered but make sure it meet you while you are a muslin and observing the good things in Islam. |
xynerise:Its so bad and awkward to focus only the forwarders to score. imagine in Arsenal, anybody scores. This make the opponents to give hard tackle to our forwarders. |
Fuckyoumod:Bingo, thats Islamic law and was not written by anyman. Same law should be implemented everywhere to make the world a better place. |
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RaySimran:He deserved it, its an unsportsman conduct. |
Angelfrost:Kareem Adeyemi, and Rodrigo are not major signing? |
Had it been you are Man united fan, we would have accepted what you said but saying it out hatred is not taking. |
Wotowotoman:Come my side, na public we take dey watch am. |
timilehin007:🤣🤣🤣🤣where was Courtois ever mentioned in my comment as Man U keeper? Abeg stop wetin u dey take o. |
timilehin007:Seems you are high! The Belgium keeper that was scored, which club side team does keep for? |
Kalulu44:How many years of you watching football, So you mean the keeper suppose to catch the ball instead point in out just as he did. What were the deffenders doing with the pressure. |
Ramanto:Whise fault was the goal? The pressure was getting much na, even if Coutois is on the field with the same amount of pressure same result would emanate.🙂🙂 |
BlackViper:The Global terrorism ranking is full of shit😖😖😖😖 Between 2015 and this year 2026 which have the hihest degree of terrorism? |
God1000:I swear this guy, Natayahul is a dog. |
FreeStuffsNG:A hell fucking lie, INEC has debunked it. |
oyeb15:And you think your country is at its best form, you can't travel abroad. |
Niaija no c rious I swear. Someone embezzled empower money una no fit catch am since. |
olajigaolamide:What connection does the bastard have with God to protect him? He surely knows he will be gun down by the same terrorist guarding him. |
yyoomy63:The same atom of joy Nigerians are seeing in this same present regime is what your family and everyone supporting this government sha see and aquire in the name of God. Sheybi Nigeria is good now and so your lives and family shall experience the same till they die. Behold!! Not a curse but a prayer to the evil party supporters. Pls lets keep saying this to everyone in support of this government. |
BlackViper:See this mouth-odour president, come to Nigeria and you will see your mates packing horse shit. |
Parachoko:Oga, Omo Tinubu! Sincerely, infrastructure is what Nigeria need during this bleeding time. Pls lets always show we go school here fa. There are numerous graduates here. |
COMPAQ:No be gadus be this? Here is your self o and reason to your talk oga. FG has stopped subsidy and still borrow. Truly you go school ni tooto. |
Chenu60:Shoot on sight na! Christopher Musa has ordered Nigeria Army to shoot on sight, why allowing this bastard to sit. |
UKEMY:Any thing that remove Agbadoand his peple is the best of the peace. |
WriteerNg:Na shook past through this one, something you can see the source there fa. |
DomPerignon:What difference does it make with Sango worshippers soon you will start pour oil on it A mere status that can not talk, walk and do other living activities is given much recognition as God. May Allah help us to use our brain. |
Trying to exclude himself from the bad leaders. |
