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Paul Mackenzie: From taxi driver to pastor who lured faithful to starve to death

Controversial televangelist Paul Mackenzie at at Malindi Law Courts on May 6, 2019. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard]

The world of controversial televangelist Paul Mackenzie reads like a horror movie, with the man facing a religious scandal never witnessed in Kilifi County.

But those who know him say the Good News International Church pastor, whose followers are believed to have starved to death in order to meet Jesus, started life in Malindi as a taxi driver way back in 1997.

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