Police confirmed on Saturday that Kilifi-based cult pastor Paul Mackenzie is on hunger strike.
Mackenzie hasn’t eaten since homicide detectives broadened their investigation and began marking gravesites and exhuming bodies of presumed members believed to have starved to death in Shakahola village.
According to police, Mackenzie has refused to drink even a glass of water because he claims to be fasting and praying.
Police reported his arrest last Saturday after discovering the bodies of four followers he reportedly told to starve themselves in order to “meet Jesus”.
Eleven other followers of the church — the youngest just 17 — were taken to hospital, three of them in critical condition, after being rescued a week ago when the first bodies were discovered in a forest.
