asked the Kenyan president sorry on behalf of your government for failing to prevent more than two hundred alleged members of a Christian sect from the south of the country fast until death to meet Jesus. “It shouldn’t have happened. For that, I apologize,” she acknowledged. William belched.
“I must not take this lightly,” Ruto remarked during an interview broadcast on several Kenyan television channels late Sunday evening, “it is obvious that there has been a laxity in our government, which unfortunately has led to the deaths of many Kenyans “. .
Furthermore, the Kenyan president said “I take full responsibility” and promised that “the people responsible for this government failure they will have to be held accountable”. He also assured that the country is conducting an “exhaustive” investigation into the facts to get “to the bottom of the matter”.
In parallel, Ruto warned him will monitor religious institutions in Kenya to avoid repeating similar actions, although he clarified that it is “unfair” to condemn and criticize all religions based on the actions of a few individuals.
“We want to establish a mechanism with religious leaders that ensures that criminals and thieves do not take advantage of religion and faith to do harm,” he said.
The number of suspected members of a Christian cult who fasted to death to meet Jesus Christ climbed last Saturday to 201 after authorities found 22 new bodies in Shakahola Forest today. The number could continue to grow as the excavations are not finished yet.
Almost everyone killed in the so-called “Shakahola massacre” was exhumed from graves and mass graves found in that forest, except some who died in the hospital due to their serious condition.
Autopsies of more than a hundred bodies have shown this, even though they have all shown it signs of hungerthe corpses of at least three minors and one adult also showed signs of strangulation and suffocation.
Similarly, the first investigations by the police suggest that the faithful were forced to continue the fast, even if they wanted to abandon it.
The regional police commissioner for the Kenyan coast, Rhoda Onyancha, told the press that the operation will resume next Monday. Onyanch also reported Saturday that another suspect had been arrested, bringing the total number of suspects involved to 26.
The regional police commissioner also said the number of people reported missing had risen to 610 since Friday. Meanwhile, the number of people saved alive remained at 72.
Sect leader arrested
On Wednesday, the Shanzu court in the coastal city of Mombasa ordered a thirty-day extension (starting May 3) of the detention of the cult leader who allegedly persuaded victims to fast, pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, along with his wife and 16 other suspects.
On May 2, Nthenge and the other detainees were released from the court in the tourist coastal city of Malindi, after the prosecutor’s office indicated its intention to press charges against them for terrorism, for which that court declared itself incompetent.
However, the pastor, who leads the Good News International Church, and his henchmen were arrested minutes later and transferred to Shanzu Courthouse, about 120 kilometers away, where the police demanded, without success, the authorization to detain them for another ninety days.
With information from EFE.
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Source: Clarin
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