Mackenzie son speaks on keeping off his father’s church
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Dan Mackenzie reveals the intrigues behind his father ditching home to live in the forest and why didn't subscribe to his teachings
Dan Mackenzie reveals the intrigues behind his father ditching home to live in the forest and why didn’t subscribe to his teachings.
21-year-old Dan Mackenzie, who is the firstborn son of controversial pastor Paul Mackenzie, on Sunday, May 7, narrated how his father left home to settle in the infamous Shakahola Forest.
Dan Mackenzie, a boda boda rider in Malindi town.
According to Dan, his father quit preaching and closed his church in 2019 to take up farming in the troubled forest.
He revealed that the controversial pastor summoned him and told him that he was going to purchase a piece of land in Shakahola for farming purposes and (the son) had to stay behind to manage their Malindi Townhome.
“He told me that he was going to purchase a piece of land at Shakahola and he was going farm it.
Dan was left behind with his stepmother, grandmother, and father’s third wife who was in police custody.
“My father loves me. When he left, he told me that if I ever needed anything, he would provide for us. He often send us maize and tomatoes from there (Shakahola) and visited us periodically to monitor how we were doing,” he added.
Dan also defended his father over claims of radicalizing his followers arguing that the believers were not forced to take up his father’s radical teaching including dropping out of school or fasting.
“All that is a lie because he did not go there with the congregants. He went there on his own because he wanted to become a farmer.
“My father had been a farmer for a long time since 2015. He had bought a piece of land in Kakuyuni and was farming it for about two years,” he insisted.
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He says he has known his father all through as a role model, kind to a fault, and incapable of murder.
“Babangu hana makosa,” he says.
According to Dan, his father does not have any theological training and studied up to form four at Lukore secondary school in Kwale before moving to Malindi town as a taxi driver.
In his son’s eyes, it has never been mandatory for Mackenzie’s followers to follow his radical preachings against education as well as teachings on fasting that have ended tragically for some of his followers.
“Nimefika Form One na niliacha shule mimi mwenyewe sikulazimishwa na mtu…na baba alipofunga kanisa mimi pia sikuwahi jihusisha na kanisa na alienda huko peke yake,” he says.
The 21-year-old firstborn from MacKenzie’s first wife who died in 2010 has also condemned vandalism on the perimeter wall of the family home by irate residents whom he accused of looting.
“Walivunja vunja wakachukuwa pikipiki mohogo,” says Dan.
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