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Shakahola doomsday: Pastor Makenzi and wife were to 'meet Jesus' in August

State agencies at the Coast are on high alert, fearful that controversial preacher Paul Makenzi and other survivors of the Shakahola doomsday cult that has claimed 425 lives might be planning a mass suicide.

The fears are borne out of the fact that Makenzi had declared August as the last month for the followers of the fast to meet Jesus before the annihilation of the world.

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