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Kenya To Transform ‘Starvation Cult’ Scene To Memorial Site

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By Ebi Kesiena

Interior Minister, Kithure Kindiki has disclosed plans to convert a vast coastal forest where the bodies of more than 250 people linked to a doomsday cult have been exhumed into a national memorial site.

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According to the minister, the Shakahola forest where grave crimes have been committed will not remain as it was.

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“The government will convert it into a national memorial, a place of remembrance so that Kenyans and the world do not forget what happened here,” he said in a statement.

Recall that the discovery of mass graves in Shakahola forest, a 325-hectare bushland that lies inland from the Indian Ocean town of Malindi shocked Kenyans.

Although cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie is facing various charges in the grisly case, accused of driving his followers to death by preaching that starvation was the only path to God. Investigators began a third phase of exhumation on Tuesday, unearthing nine more bodies to take the death toll to 251.

Kindiki said the cult’s activities extended beyond Shakahola forest and that “comprehensive, methodical, and scientific” investigations had extended to a ranch in the area stretching over more than 14,980 hectares.

While starvation appears to be the main cause of death, some of the victims – including children – were strangled, beaten or suffocated, according to autopsies carried by the government.

“Once the ongoing exercise is concluded, a congregation of believers from all faiths and the national leadership shall convene for a commemoration service,” Kindiki said.

Mackenzie – a taxi driver-turned-preacher – has not yet been required to enter a plea, with the prosecution seeking for more days to detain him pending further investigations.

The 50-year-old founder of the Good News International Church turned himself in on April 14, after police acting on a tip-off first entered Shakahola forest.

Police say at least 35 people have been arrested.

According to police record, some 95 people have been rescued from the forest while the number of those reported missing was 613,

Questions have been raised about how Mackenzie, a father of seven, managed to evade law enforcement despite a history of extremism and previous legal cases.

However, the horrific saga led President William Ruto to set up a commission of inquiry into the deaths and a task force to review regulations governing religious bodies.

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