“You’re wasting your time,” Mackenzie tells government over Shakahola probe via CNN
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Paul Mackenzie dismisses charges labeled against him of overseeing his followers sterve to death at Shakahola as he accuses government of intimidation
Paul Mackenzie dismisses charges labeled against him of overseeing his followers sterve to death at Shakahola as he accuses government of intimidation.
On Friday, June 2, Pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie told Cable News Network (CNN) that he had never saw anyone starve to death in Malindi, Kilifi County’s Shakahola Forest.
The pastor of the Good News International Church asserted in his interview with CNN reporter David McKenzie that he had never witnessed parents kill their children as was extensively reported in the press.
“I have never seen anybody starving or killing his or her children,” pastor Mackenzie told the reporter at Shanzu Law Court in Mombasa.
In the brief interview, Mackenzie further disputed the accusations made against him, calling them an attempt by the government to intimidate him.
He further charged that the investigation linking him to the Malindi cult, 240 bodies of which were exhumed at Shakahola Forest, was a waste of time.
“It is just a matter of intimidation and wasting of others’ time for nothing,” Mackenzie insisted in response to genocide and terrorism charges likely to be filed against him.
“What happened in the forest with your followers?” CNN reporter asked.
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“I can tell nothing about that because I have been in custody for two months. So I don’t know what’s going on outside there. Have you been there?” Mackenzie posed while responding to the question.
Pastor Paul Mackenzie is being held alongside 19 other individuals in connection with the Shakahola Massacre.
He has been in police custody since his arrest on April 15 when two minors were found dead and buried in his Shakahola forest.
It was established that they had starved to death, prompting investigations which have so far led to the exhumation of more than 240 bodies from the expansive forest.
Government Chief Pathologist Johansen Oduor said autopsy results showed that the causes of death ranged from starvation, asphyxiation and blunt force traumas to the heads of the victims.
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