Kindiki dismisses the DCI report on the Shakahola body organs trade
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Kindiki dismisses the DCI report that some bodies retrieved from Shakahola forest had missing organs
Kindiki dismisses the DCI report that some bodies retrieved from Shakahola forest had missing organs.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has dismissed a Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI) report that some bodies retrieved from the Shakahola forest had missing organs.
Speaking after witnessing the second phase of exhumation on Tuesday, Prof Kindiki launched a broadside against what he termed “politicization” of the probe into the massacre.
He said two agents from the media, civil society, and the Red Cross will be allowed to access the grave sites in what is seen as a response to public outcry over the whole process.
“As of now treat it as rumours (missing body parts). People who have facts are those on the ground not those in offices,” said Kindiki, in response to an affidavit filed in court by the DCI.
An affidavit of Chief Inspector Martin Munene annexed to an application seeking orders to freeze bank accounts of New Life Centre, linked the massacre to human body organ trade.
Munene claimed the postmortem reveals that some of the 112 bodies recovered had missing organs. This is despite pathologists insisting that all bodies were intact.
The DCI officers swore the affidavit in an application seeking orders to freeze Pastor Odero and church bank accounts.
On Friday, Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor said the autopsy report on the 112 corpses ruled out body organ harvesting. The autopsies were conducted at Malindi Sub County Hospital.
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He said the victims were either forcefully starved, hit by a blunt object, or strangled to death on different days. Some bodies had severely decomposed.
Kindiki said the state had nothing to hide and that tremendous progress had been made in the investigations expected to lead to the arrest of third-tier suspects.
The state has linked the deaths to Pastor Paul Makenzi of Good News International Church and Ezekiel Odero of New Life Prayer Centre.
Odero was arrested after the police linked him to Pastor Makenzi, who the state says lured his followers to starve to death to meet Jesus.
Kindiki said 20 more graves were found in the forest and that exhumation and postmortem will take longer.
“Twenty more fresh graves have been identified which means this process will take longer than we anticipated. I can conclude that this was a highly organized crime and the government will unravel it,” said Kindiki.
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