"On the matter of whether the bodies could have been brought from somewhere else, your honour, I cannot comment on that. We were testing whether there could be poisoning or toxic substances, and I can confirm that all the samples turned negative," Ngumbao told the court.
The accused denied the charges.
Earlier, a Shakahola resident narrated how he and Makenzi's followers were embroiled in a boundary row, forcing him to demolish his house and relocate.
Andrew Baya Charo, 54, told the court that he first met a man wearing a turban clearing a section of the Kwa Baya Mwaro, which he referred to as the first piece of the Shakahola land, which he locally referred to as Kwa Baya Mwaro.
He told the court that Kwa Baya Mwaro land is divided into three sections, and he lived on the second one.
Charo said the man wearing the turban pointed to where Makenzi and a group of people were sitting, and the controversial preacher told him they were in Shakahola to do farming and they had bought the land.
He said that their conflict started when Makenzi and his people started encroaching on the boundary and invaded his land.
"I tried having a conversation with the pastor, who had already created his team of elders, and anytime I requested a meeting, he would refer me to Evans Sirya. After the meeting, in which I was with two other people from my side and the pastor had eight people in the same meeting, we did not agree on anything because the pastor's people were looking at us with intimidation, and we concluded that whoever was ready to report the matter to the police should go. I gave up, demolished my house, and went away, leaving Makenzi and his people in the land," Charo told the court.
Months later, while on his farm, Charo told the court that a very weak boy approached him seeking directions to the chief's office.
However, the boy did not go, forcing Charo to stay with him and he asked his wife to take the minor to Chief MacDonald Mwaringa, on the second day.
"My wife later said that the chief had told him that he had found another child and asked my wife to tell me to take care of the two children," Mwaro told the court.
The witness told the court that the presence of Makenzi's followers had brought life to the Shakahola market since they used to buy a lot of foodstuffs, and he sold his maize within a short time.
Charo, however, said that after a while, Makenzi's followers stopped flocking to the market.
He told the court that later, a herder informed him that he had found a decomposing body in the Shakahola forest.