Kwa Binzaro cult Stories
Residents, led by the local Chakama Pastors’ Fellowship, have linked the vast unoccupied land to cult activity, arguing it has become a breeding groun...
Detectives told the court they would use the extra time to sort through 102 commingled remains already recovered, carry out post-mortem examinations o...
Khadijah Wilson recounted how she and her younger brother found the boy, identified in court only as P.P., lying weak outside their shop in the Maduka...
The CS pointed to weak community structures, citing the Kenya Alliance of Residents Association (KARA), which he said ought to play a stronger role in...
Investigators reported that the 51 days initially granted by the court had been severely undermined by the suspects’ methods, which appeared designed...
The Kwa Binzaro tragedy, much like Shakahola before it, has left families shattered, parents mourning children, and children left without parents. Fo...
The trio had been arrested for allegedly selling a five-acre piece of land to the main suspect, Sherleen Temba Anido.
Omar Mohamed, appearing as the 58th prosecution witness, recounted how the minors were discovered during investigations into the conduct of followers...
The air was heavy with the smell of decay, yellow tape hung loosely from tree trunks marking exhumation sites, and exhausted officers trudged through...
Police IG Kanja revealed that the majority of the victims are believed to be non-locals.
The CS expressed concern over the rising number of cult-related deaths, lamenting what he described as the collapse of community vigilance and respons...
The Senate Minority Leader ruled out a religious cult as the cause of these deaths, unlike the Shakahola case.
The next phase will involve post-mortems and DNA profiling of both the bodies and the body parts recovered. Onyancha appealed to relatives of missing...
He emphasised that there had been a disconnect in collaboration among agencies, including the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), local admi...
Government pathologist Dr Richard Njoroge confirmed that seven bodies were exhumed on Thursday, bringing the total number recovered since the exercise...
According to Hussein, the implementation of the Constitution promulgated in August 2010 has been fraught with challenges, as the state has consistentl...
In addition to the graves, investigators have so far retrieved 21 body parts scattered across the site since the exercise kicked off last week.
After Shakahola, the then Interior Cabinet Secretary and now Deputy President, Prof Kithure Kindiki, assured the nation that never again would such a...
The pathologist said the team hopes to complete exhumations by the end of the week, after which post-mortems will be conducted to establish the causes...
She added that detectives are also seeking to establish how the woman acquired the land in question, which is part of Chakama Ranch.
Four bodies were exhumed on Friday from three graves at Kwa Binzaro village in Kilifi County, bringing the total number of bodies recovered to nine si...
Government Pathologist Dr Richard Njoroge appealed to families who have missing relatives to report to the Red Cross desk set up at Malindi District H...
The grim discovery brings the total number of graves identified in the area to 21, following weeks of reports about unexplained disappearances believe...
The fresh graves, now being linked to what activists are calling “Shakahola 2”, are believed to hold victims of a similar deadly cult associated with...
The prosecution requested extra time to complete investigations, stressing that the extension is intended to ensure a thorough inquiry and is not mean...
According to the county’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations, the victims may have died from starvation and suffocation linked to cult practices t...
A Malindi court has now granted the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) permission to exhume more suspected mass graves in Binzaro village.
Survivors rescued from the area were reportedly unable to account for the whereabouts of several children, prompting fears that more victims may be bu...
Police also recovered two human skulls and the fresh body of an unidentified man in nearby bushes. The five-acre parcel, now designated a crime scene,...
The arrests follow renewed fears of a revival of the Paul Mackenzie-led Shakahola cult, whose mass graves, uncovered in 2023, shocked the nation and d...
