Prosecution Monday presented three protected witnesses before Lady Justice Diana Kavedza at the Mombasa High Court in the ongoing murder trial of controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie and his 29 co-accused, who face charges linked to the deaths of over 400 people, including 191 children, in the Shakahola Forest massacre in Kilifi County.
The court heard harrowing accounts from a 19-year-old man, O.H. alias P.P., a 10-year-old minor, E.G.W., and an 18-year-old man, all of whom were minors at the time of the events.
P.P. testified that he was once a Muslim but was compelled, along with his parents, to convert to Christianity in order to join Mackenzie’s Good News International Church at its Makongeni branch in Nairobi.
He told the court how Mackenzie used memory verses and CDs to preach against formal education, medical care, and even national registration initiatives like the Huduma Number, which he described as the ‘mark of the beast.’
P.P. further narrated that while at Shakahola, there were many children present, including four he remembered from the church in Makongeni.
He recounted Mackenzie’s teachings that Jesus had commanded followers to begin fasting to death, starting with children, then women, then the elderly, and finally Mackenzie himself, claiming that Jesus was waiting for them in the hereafter.
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