Mother expects DNA results of remains of open

Carolynine Orider told the BBC that he was desperate for the fate of his two young sons, who disappeared two months ago with his father, a follower of the teaching of the famous chief cult leader.

D -Ja Odor says that, against the backdrop of the ongoing investigation into more deaths related to the cult that identified her husband’s body in Morga in the coastal city of Malindi.

His corpse was found in July in the village of Ku Binzaro, in the interior of Malindi and near the remote Forest Shakahola, where more than 400 bodies were discovered in 2023 in one of the worst cases of cult-linked mass death.

MS Odor is now awaiting the results of DNA tests, which take place on more than 30 recently discovered bodies.

“I felt pain. I barely recognized him. His body was badly decomposed,” d -iador, 40, He told her husband Samuel Ovino Ovoy.

She believes that her sons, 12-year-old Daniel and nine-year-old Elijah, are traveling with their 45-year-old father to Quan Binzaro in late June.

The self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie is currently tested for the so-called “Shakahola Gorako Glane” acknowledged that he was not guilty of murderS

It is alleged that he told his followers that they would reach the sky faster if they stop eating – and there are concerns that he was in connection with his prison followers.

D -Ja Odor says her husband began to listen to the teachings of G -n -Mackenzie four or five years ago.

“He changed and did not want the children to go to school,” she said. “When the children will get sick, he will say that God will cure them. He really believes these teachings.”

His change in opinion on official education and medical interventions caused friction between the couple, who had six children together at their home in Mudulia in Busia County, West Kenya, near Lake Victoria.

“The teachings didn’t make sense to me,” said G -Ja Odor. “When the child is ill, yes, I believe that God can cure them, but I also know that when the child is ill, you take them to a hospital.”

Two months ago, on June 28, the situation turned to a worse when her husband left with his two sons.

“He told me that he was going to his home village (at birth),” said G -Ja Odor. “The last phone call he told me told me,” We have gone, God be with you. “And I told him,” Be safe. “

But D -Ja Odor began to become suspicious when he did not contact her again.

Later, she discovers that he did not go to the village of her parents in Homa Bay County, which is also near Lake Victoria, about 200 km (125 miles) south of Mudulia.

Recovering his footsteps, she discovered that he had taken a bus from their home in Busiaa County and was traveling with the boys more than 900 km east to Ku Binzaro in Kilifi County in Kenya.

She informs the police and urgently put a word through various networks in an attempt to find them.

A few weeks ago, she called, saying that someone who was in line with her husband’s description was in the Malindi morgue.

It was a devastating blow.

Odor Odor travels to the coastal zone on August 19 to confirm her husband’s death for himself.

They told her that his body was found in the village of Ku Binzaro on July 19 during a police raid organized for reports of suspicious disappearance.

Police said it was found in shrubs near a house suspected of being connected to the starving cult and seems to have died by strangulation.

It is claimed that some victims of slaughter were strangled if they took too much time to starve to death.

Following an investigation into the Kenyan cabinet of the Director of Public Prosecutors, 11 people were arrested in connection with the case, including three who were followers of Mackenzie.

Search more bodies started on August 21stS So far, 32 bodies have been exhumed and more than 70 parts of the body have been found scattered in the forest.

For G -Ja Odor, it was a terrifying process of testimony.

“You see bodies being exhumed and you don’t even know the condition of your own children,” she said. “It’s very painful.”

Dr. Raymond Omolo, a senior civil servant at the Ministry of the Interior, told the BBC that the government intends to introduce more terrible laws to deal with religious extremism and radicalization in the country.

“We work on a bill, the religious bill so that we can at least have certain parameters for a religious organization – are there a constitution? What are the leaders? What qualifications do they have?” he said.

He believes that this will help ensure that such groups are more responsible.

Elumations near Ku binzaro have been temporarily stopped as experts on murder and criminals are preparing to explore the remains found so far.

For residents in the area, the most investigation not only shocks them, but it makes life difficult as the forest is a vital resource for them.

“We depend on the firewood forest and charcoal,” George Conde told Kwa Binzaro to the BBC. “Now, because of what happened, they were not allowed to enter. They must meet the whole forest and stop these cults once and for all.”

D -Ja Odor continues his agonizing wait to learn the location of his two sons.

“I was looking forward to one of my sons to go to grade 7 and the other 4th grade,” she said. “Every time I see a child wearing a uniform, I feel pain because of their absence. I don’t know how they are doing.”