Shakahola Two: Fresh fears of cult activities in Binzaro
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Save for a few tourist vans headed to Malindi, the Malindi-Sala Gate road feels like a graveyard.
Snaking through sleepy villages—Kakuyuni, Jilore, Kakoneni, Marikano, Pishimwenga, Baolala, Timboni, Chakama and Zowerani—the tarmac lies hauntingly silent, the journey marked by a sense of foreboding.
This is the same corridor once used by followers of the now-notorious Paul Mackenzie, the preacher behind the Shakahola cult that horrified the nation in early 2023.
Hundreds perished under his fanatical gospel, their shallow graves later discovered in the remote Shakahola forest.
Mackenzie’s followers starved to death after he allegedly instructed them to give up worldly things so that they “could meet Jesus”.
The head of the Good News International Church is facing charges of murder, child torture and “terrorism” after hundreds of bodies of his followers were discovered in Shakahola forest.
Further into the interior, the land grows eerily deserted. Dry air chokes the atmosphere, and the acacia-strewn scrubland flanking the road looks lifeless—almost cursed.
A turn at Kwa Iddi farm leads into the thick brushland of Binzaro village, an area that has now ominously taken on the name “Shakahola Two”—a new ground zero for suspected cultic activity.
According to Haki Africa’s Rapid Response Officer, Mathias Shipeta, it all began when a family in Siaya reported a missing relative.
That alert triggered a search, which led the authorities to Binzaro. The missing man was found alive—but what emerged next was chilling.
Shipeta said the man was a former Mackenzie follower who went into hiding when the first Shakahola massacre was exposed.
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