Senate team wants cult leader Makenzi's teachings deleted from internet

Exhumed bodies at the Shakahola forest. Controversial preacher Paul Makenzi is accused of subjecting his followers to a marathon fasting ritual to prepare them to "meet Jesus Christ" during which most of them died of starvation. [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard].

The Ad hoc senate committee on the proliferation of religious organisations in the country has asked the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) to delete the teachings of cult leader Paul Makenzi from the internet.

The committee, chaired by Tana River Senator Danson Mungatana, is investigating mass killings in the Shakahola forest that have been linked to the controversial preacher, Makenzi, of Good News International Church.