Kilifi-based preached Paul Mackenzie was released on Tuesday before being re-arrested shortly after his arraignment before a Malindi court, along with six others.
Mackenzie is being investigated for the Shakahola Massacre, in which over 109 people are suspected of starving to death.
Police said he will now appear at the Shanzu court alongside his co-accused.
Judge Ivy Wasike stated that the Malindi court lacks jurisdiction to hear their bail application.
The prosecution had earlier urged the courts to close the files of Mackenzie and his co-accused in order for the seven to face terrorism charges at the Shanzu court.
The seven are likely to face charges under the Terrorism Act for radicalization.
Mackenzie is the leader of Good News International church.
The State has linked both Mackenzie and Ezekiel Odero to the deaths in Shakahola where more than 110 bodies were found buried.
Ezekiel was last Thursday arrested at his Mavueni church in Kilifi County and is being detained at Port Police Station ahead of the court appearance to know his fate.
Makenzi allegedly indoctrinated his followers to starve to death to meet Jesus.
Some victims are said to have been killed before dying.
Ezekiel will know if he will be released on bond pending an ongoing probe into the saga.
Police want 30 days to hold Ezekiel to enable them complete investigations.
This is because postmortem on the bodies is yet to be completed.
The exercise is set to end Friday on the first batch of the 110 bodies before more exhumations continue.
While the two pastors expect to be given a bond, the prosecution wants them detained for more days for investigations to be completed.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) linked Ezekiel and Makenzi to the Shakahola forest deaths where more than 110 bodies have been found.
Ezekiel’s lawyer Jared Magolo said in court that the prosecution was on a fishing expedition because it had not given any evidence linking his client to Makenzi.
“You cannot blame a pastor for the death of a churchgoer if family members themselves take very sick people to the church, which is always the last resort,” he noted.
DPP painted Ezekiel as Makenzi’s accomplice and sought 30 days to detain him pending investigations.
State prosecutor Alexander Jamii told the court that Ezekiel and Mackenzie share a common history and cited a television station used to pass radicalization messages.
Mackenzie’s run-in with the law began in 2017 when he and two others were charged with providing Basic Education in an unregistered institution.
Mackenzie was later arraigned on October 17, 2017, on four counts.
The charges included radicalisation, and failing to take his children to compulsory primary and secondary school.
He pleaded not guilty and was acquitted on October 29, 2021.
On April 11, 2019, Mackenzie was charged with three counts, including incitement to disobedience of the law and being in possession of and distributing films to the public which had not been examined and approved by the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB).
He again pleaded not guilty in this case.
The matter is coming up for a defense hearing on June 26 this year.
Mackenzie was mentioned in five separate miscellaneous criminal applications.
One in 2017 saw him and 20 others held for seven days on grounds that they were to carry out investigations for the radicalization of children after they were found with 73 children in a church.
The other four emanated from the ongoing Shakahola investigations, including one in particular that connected Mackenzie to the murder of two children in Shakahola.
That application was later dismissed for lack of merit.
The Good News International Church owned by Mackenzie was also involved in a children protection and care matter in October 2017, as well as a criminal case in March 2019 and a criminal application involving three individuals that was heard on Thursday.
