Witnesses testify on land used to bury Shakahola cult victims
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Witnesses give account of land in Shakahola at the center of cult case as reports emerge on possible regrouping of the cult members
Witnesses appeared before a Mombasa court on Wednesday to provide information on the land where victims of the Shakahola cult were buried.
In a case involving suspected cult leader Paul Mackenzie and his other followers, Andrew Charo Baya, the 40th prosecution witness who is a farmer born, raised and currently residing in Shakahola for the last 54 years gave a witness testimony of the events that happened in the forest two years ago.
Baya stated that on July 9, 2020, he encountered Mackenzie and his followers as they were there clearing the bush and cleaning the land which didn’t belong to them, planning to undertake farming activities.
“I went and found a child when I was coming from a neighbor’s farm. The child had his clothes on him, and we exchanged greetings. He proceeded to tell me where they were, they were fasting, fasting until they died. They called the place Jangwani (wilderness),” testified Baya.
Baya further recounted that three months later on March 17, he was called by the area chief and instructed to go to a residence in Shamba la Msimba where there was a body of a man that had been found by pastoralists and had already decomposed.
In the days that followed, he helped with rescuing survivors who were exhausted and unable to move. He also helped to exhume some bodies.
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