Hard truths.
According to the prosecution, the indoctrination intensified between 2020 and 2023, when followers were instructed to cut ties with society, abandon education, reject medical care and disengage from state insti...
A father in the Shakahola massacre trial told a Mombasa court he believes his four missing children are alive, rejecting DNA and postmortem findings identifying one exhumed body as his daughter.
The self-styled preacher, who is accused of leading a starvation cult in Shakahola, Kilifi County, told the court that he fears the medical attention he is receiving could be used to target him.
Titus Ngonjo Gandi told Principal Magistrate Nelly Chepchirchir that his wife, Esther Birya Masha, lured their two sons, Harry and Isaack Ngala, into Mackenzie’s cult