A victim of the Mackenzie cult now implicates police over the deaths
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Mackenzie victim who rescued his kids reveals how the cult leader used the local police to get away with the crime
Mackenzie victim who rescued his kids reveals how the cult leader used the local police to get away with the crime.
The cult leader Paul Mackenzie was able to brainwash and recruit individuals to his organization, and he used the help of the local police to get away with it, according to a resident of Mumias in Kakamega County.
Benson Mutimba said in an interview with Citizen TV on Wednesday, April 26, that if police hadn’t conspired with the contentious pastor, the country would not have experienced such a catastrophe.
He recalled how Mackenzie radicalized his four children and how police officers frustrated him.
“One day my son told me that he went to a crusade in Mombasa and Mackenzie asked him to join his church.
“The pastor brainwashed him by telling him to drop out of school and burn all documents except his birth certificate which he was supposed to take to him,” Mutimba explained Mackenzie’s modus operandi.
The boy was adamant on moving to Kilifi County, where the pastor lived, despite repeated pleas from his father.
He destroyed every one of his academic transcripts and withdrew permanently from Kibabii University, where he was pursuing undergraduate studies.
“After dropping out of school, the boy took three of his young brothers and fled to Kilifi.
“I made a report to the police and the pastor was arrested. But immediately after he appeared at the police station, things turned against me,” Mutimba detailed.
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He explained that police officers from Kilifi came to the defence of the pastor and accused him of trying to get custody of the children illegally.
“The police officers asked me if I had the birth certificates of the children. When I told them that Mackenzie took them, they accused me of trying to steal children from the pastor,” Mutimba painfully recounted noting that he was forced to make a report with the Nairobi Police officers.
After a grueling back and forth with the authorities, Mutimba rescued two of his four children but his joy was short-lived after one of them died shortly after due to a self-induced hunger strike.
Mutimba believes that his family would still be complete if the police department had not turned a blind eye to the pastor’s dealings.
Meanwhile, as of Thursday, April 27, the death toll stood at 95 as authorities discovered more bodies of people who were forcefully made to starve to death.
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