DCI Questions Pastor Ezekiel Amid Shakahola Tragedy

Pastor Ezekiel Odero was questioned by police officers looking into the mysterious deaths connected to cultic worship at Shakahola on Tuesday, April 25 regarding his beliefs and church practices. 

According to reliable sources at the Ministry of Interior who spoke to Look Up Digital, the renowned man of God recorded a statement with Kilifi DCI.

The law enforcers also questioned the management of the Milele Funeral Home in Mavueni, Kilifi County, a morgue close to Pastor Ezekiel's church, regarding crucial matters pertaining to alleged cultic operations at the Coast.

According to Johnson Amani Kea, CEO of Milele Funeral Home, they responded to police inquiries about the number of bodies the morgue removed from Pastor Ezekiel's church. 

He also clarified that contrary to what had been claimed, the funeral home had only assisted the police in their inquiries rather than making a formal complaint.

"As required by law, we have provided the police with our statements regarding that.  Pastor Ezekiel is not the subject of a complaint we have made. Police are simply conducting their investigations.” the CEO stated.

“The security agencies were handling the situation,” he continued, so he was unable to make any further comments.

However, he claimed that the officers who questioned the Milele Funeral Home management came from DCI Kilifi's main office and not the Malindi Police Station. 

The questioning of the New Life Church’s leader comes moments after police blocked the media from accessing the residence of Paul Mackenzie where bodies are being exhumed.

The entire 800-acre section of the Shakahola forest was deemed a disturbed area and an operation zone on Tuesday by Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki.

Exhumations of at least 90 bodies from mass graves in the Malindi area have exposed security officials, and it is likely that more than 100 people have died.

Seventeen people were exhumed just on Tuesday.

Kindiki said yesterday that what occurred at Mackenzie's church was "just the tip of the iceberg."

He claimed that Noordin Haji, director of the public prosecution, might prefer terrorism charges against the controversial pastor and his cronies.