Nairobi, 24 April, 2023 / 9:23 pm (ACI Africa).
Catholic Bishops in Kenya have joined other Christian leaders in condemning the activities of a suspected “starvation” cult in the East African nation under the auspices of “pastor” Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, revealed in dozens of deaths in the ongoing exhumation of bodies that Kenyan authorities have ordered.
In their collective statement in which they decry activities of cultic leaders who thrive in the art of “exploiting gullible Kenyans”, members of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) urge “speedy investigation into the circumstances” around the established deaths and burials in shallow mass graves.
“We join other Kenyans in calling for a speedy investigation into the circumstances leading to the heinous act that led gullible Kenyans to their untimely death,” KCCB members say in their Monday, April 24 statement obtained by ACI Africa.
Since April 21, Kenyan State officers have been exhuming bodies from a forest farm linked to the Christian cult leader, Mackenzie, who is behind the “Good News International Church”.
By April 24 evening, 73 bodies had been exhumed from shallow mass graves in Shakahola forest, some 70 kilometres from Malindi town in Kenya’s coastal County of Kilifi.