Rescued cult followers in Kenya to face charges
BY USMAN AHMED KANEMPRESS
1ST AUGUST 2023
Forty-one people rescued from a doomsday cult in Kenya earlier this year are to be charged with murder and other offences alongside their leader.
The cult’s leader, Paul Mackenzie, is accused of encouraging his followers to starve themselves to death to enter heaven before the world ended.
Prosecutors say the victims-turned-suspects were either parents or grandparents of children, who died or are missing.
It was alleged that they were culpable for what happened to victims.
Police authorities conducting investigation into the mass suicide have so far exhumed over 400 bodies from the Shakahola forest in south-eastern Kenya.
Though over 600 people are still missing.
