A seventeen year old minor witness has narrated how cult leader Paul Mackenzie conducted his cult activities including how he managed to brainwash his victims.
According to the witness, the first group of followers of cult leader Paul Mackenzie arrived at Shakahola in October 2020, transported in a lorry into the site where bodies were discovered.
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Mackenzie had informed his followers in September that he had secured land at Chakama Ranch and instructed them to sell their belongings and relocate to Shakahola and were given two acres of land for a fee of Sh1,500.
The seventeen year old minor was secretly withdrawn from school in Eldoret by her mother without her father’s knowledge to be a follower of Mackenzie, where his mother had been since 2019.
Prior to the events of 2020,Mackenzie had In December 2019, ordered his followers to abandon any income-generating activities and instead focus solely on “the works of the chosen ones by preaching about the end times.
Whole of 2020, Mackenzie and his chosen ones preached door to door and in October, he informed his followers to relocate to Shakahola from Malindi, where the main church was situated.
“When we arrived at the church, there were many people. We spent the night inside, and the next morning, we were transported to Shakahola forest by lorry.”
And for over two years, the followers lived in the forest under Mackenzie’s strict rules, which banned modern medicine, education and cosmetics, deeming them satanic and against God’s will.
However, In January 2023, Mackenzie declared the beginning of a fast with strict orders not to bathe or drink water. Mackenzie reportedly told his followers that any child who died after his children would not enter heaven. This saw them ensure their children died quickly.
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He also ordered a lockdown and warned his followers that they must all be dead by June 2023 because something significant would happen that month.
“Mackenzie told us this would be our final suffering, and after that, there would be no more pain in however, his family did not fast.”
The minor also testified that Mackenzie also recruited men to prevent anyone from escaping the forest or trespassing into his territory and as people died, the buria was presided over by Mackenzie himself.