Thursday, April 27, 2023 – A Parent from Mumias in Kakamega County has shared his encounter with controversial Pastor Paul Mackenzie some years back.
The resident from Mumias has given a true picture of how the Kilifi-based pastor Mackenzie lured his family into his cultist church in Kilifi.
On Wednesday, April 26, Benson Mutimba said that Mackenzie used to work with the police to avoid being questioned.
“One day my son told me that he went to a crusade in Mombasa and Mackenzie wanted him to join his church.
“The pastor brainwashed him by telling him to drop out of school and burn all documents except his birth certificate which he was supposed to take to him,” Mutimba recounted.
The boy remained adamant despite the father’s advice not to join the church. He would finally burn all his academic papers, dropout of Kibabii University and relocate to Kilifi County where the pastor lived.
“After dropping out of school, the boy took three of his young brothers and fled to Kilifi.
“I made a report to the police and the pastor was arrested. But immediately after he appeared at the police station, things turned against me,” Mutimba stated.
All the police in Kilifi supported the pastor’s actions and even went ahead to accuse the father of the boy of trying to steal the children.
They asked him to produce any documentation including birth certificates of the children but I couldn’t because the pastor had confiscated all.
“The police officers asked me if I had the birth certificates of the children. When I told them that Mackenzie took them, they accused me of trying to steal children from the pastor,” Mutimba painfully recounted.
Mutimba would then decide to use Nairobi Police who came to the rescue of two of his four kids but, shortly, one of them died after starving to death.
Already, a whopping 95 bodies have since been discovered and retrieved from Paul Mackenzie’s Shakahola vast Forest.
