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Kindiki says Makenzi hired goons to kill followers plotting to escape

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki. The CS revealed that the government had identified 10 more mass graves in the 800-acre land. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki on Friday said Paul Makenzi hired criminals armed with crude weapons to kill followers who took longer to die and those who changed their minds about fasting and wanted out.

Prof Kindiki said grave diggers built temporary structures next to the graves of the victims where they had food as they watched the followers starve to death.

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