Fresh twist as 100 people evacuated from Pastor Ezekiel’s church
Pastor Ezekiel Odero of the New Life Prayer Centre and Church (R) with a police officer during his arrest on April 27, 2023. | FILE
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Over
100 people were evacuated from controversial Pastor Ezekiel Odero’s New Life
Prayer Centre and Church at Mavueni, Kilifi County, during his arrest on Thursday,
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki said.
Odero
was arrested in the morning hours in Mombasa,
just a day after he was questioned about alleged links to Paul
Mackenzie Nthenge, the leader of a starvation cult that has led to the deaths
of at least 98 people in Shakahola, Kilifi County.
CS kindiki through a tweet in the afternoon
said the
televangelist was being processed to face criminal charges related to the mass
killing of his followers.
”The said Church has been shut down. The over 100 people who were holed up at the premises have been evacuated and will be required to record statements,” he wrote.
Odero’s arrest came amid allegations of deaths that have been
occurring at his premises and reported to various morgues or institutions in
the region.
Citizen Digital understands that
the preacher is currently at the regional police headquarters in Mombasa where
he is being interrogated.
Detectives on Wednesday also grilled the management of a mortuary located near the preacher’s church.
Detectives and pathologists have been combing through the Shakahola Forest since Friday for more shallow graves and any of Nthenge's followers who might be hiding.
Over 360 people have been reported missing.
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