Hello Deep Dives! What will you call the Kenyan cult death, a mere coincidence of misinformation or a calculated and organised crimes? Today's post will expose why the Kenyan Interior Minister felt the incidence as an organised crime. Good morning!
It's been weeks since the Kenyans discovered and reported the issues of rising death caused by a religious cult who forced members to starve themselves to death in Shakahola forest.
As weeks goes by, hundreds of dead bodies were exhumed from the mass grave sites within the forest and as this began to happen, it looks the incidents were not just a coincidence but a well organised events that's aimed at taking hundreds of lives.
Kenyan investigators exhumed 21 more bodies on Tuesday as they resumed a search for followers of a doomsday cult, who the interior minister described as victims of a "highly organised crime".
Paul Mackenzie, leader of the Good News International Church, is in custody accused of ordering followers to starve their children and themselves so they could go to heaven before the end of the world, which he said would come on April 15.
With the addition of 21 bodies exhumed from the site, the death toll has increased to 133 and the exhumations will resume on Wednesday (May 10) in search for more graves in the forest.
The search operation in the Shakahola forest in southeastern Kenya had been suspended for a few days because of bad weather, with hundreds of people still reported missing.
"We have many more graves in this forest, and therefore it leads us to conclude that this was a highly organised crime," Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told reporters during a visit to the forest, where workers wearing hazmat suits and masks were digging up graves.
While intensive investigations is ongoing, the leader of the Kenyan cult Mackenzie, 50 is still reminded in police custody and will stay there until evidences of his crimes have been completely gathered. According to his lawyer George Kariuki, Mackenzie is cooperating with the police.
Last week, police released on bail popular televangelist Odero who is believed to be part of the mass killings alongside the cult leader Paul Mackenzie.
Odero is also accused of helping Mackenzie in some money laundering deals, although this hasn't been ascertained by the court but further investigations are being made in that regards. From police reports, huge cash transactions" thought to be linked to the sale of houses belonging to Mackenzie's followers were traced to Odero's bank accounts.
If this facts are been proven beyond reasonable doubt, it means that Paul Mackenzie and his accomplices will be sentenced to life imprisonment. This is my personal opinion, although the court will give it's verdict on the matter in due course.
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