The Senate ad hoc committee investigating Shakahola genocide has left Nairobi to visit Pastor Ezekiel’s New Life Prayer Church in Mavueni for the first time since the Shakahola tragedy came into lime light.
The Senate committee responded to a courtesy invitation by Pastor Ezekiel to visit his church.
Pastor Ezekiel through his legal team led by Advocate Danstan Omari has maintained that no any senior Government officer has ever visited his Church in Mavueni although the Government has been linking him with the Shakahola genocide.
This according to Pastor Ezekiel is contrary to what has been witnessed in Shakahola where almost the entire Security ministry led by CS Interior Prof.Kithure Kindiki in an attempt to access the scene.
The 11-member ad hoc committee chaired by Tana River Senator Danson Mungatana is expected to be picked up from the Mombasa airport at 8.30 am and they will go directly to Mavueni.
The team is investigating the proliferation of religious sects and also inquiring into the Shakahola deaths.
So far Pastor Ezekiel has maintained his innocence before the Senate ad hoc committee and has distanced himself from Mackenzie who is at the center of the Shakahola genocide investigations.
“I have no links with MacKenzie. We only interacted once when I wanted to buy a TV station from him and even then, I did not see him. That was it,” Ezekiel told the senators on Friday when he appeared before the ad hoc committee in Parliament.
It was in that sitting that Pastor Ezekiel invited lawmakers to his church premises for a fact finding mission.
Pastor Ezekiel Odero of New Life Prayer Centre and Church offered to ferry a Senate Committee to the Coast to his church in the ongoing probe into Shakahola deaths.
The team includes David Wakoli (Bungoma), William Cheptumo (Baringo), Richard Onyonka (Kisii), Eddy Oketch (Migori), Hillary Sigei (Bomet), Abdul Haji (Garissa) and Veronica Maina, Hamida Kibwana, Tabitha Mutinda and Shakila Mohammed, all nominated members.
Ezekiel in his submissions on Friday said he has a calling from God and that the money the church gets as offerings and tithes are used for the benefit of congregants and local communities.
