Controversial Kenyan pastor, Paul Mackenzie, arrested after his church member starved and suffocated her two children to death to ‘please God’
Kenyan Police have arrested a controversial televangelist in connection with the death of two children allegedly killed by their mother at Shakahola village.
Pastor Paul Mackenzie of the Good News International church in Malindi, Kilifi, was arrested on Wednesday evening, March 22, 2023, after a Malindi Court ordered the exhumation of the minor’s bodies.
Also listed as suspects in the children’s death are their parents Mr. Isaac Ngala and Emily Kaunga.
According to Kenya’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the children are believed to have been starved and later suffocated to death by their mother with the intention of becoming ‘heroes before God after death’.
The mother is a worshipper in the pastor Mackenzie’s church.
According to the investigating officer, Joseph Yator drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation in Malindi, police managed to rescue a third child.