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    "id": 1235968,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1235968/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "Many lives have been lost in Shakahola, Kilifi County, as a result of the radical religious teachings by a controversial pastor named Paul Nthenge Mackenzie. It is reported that Pastor Nthenge Mackenzie, through his purportedly skewed radical religious teachings, has been manipulating and indoctrinating locals to undertake extended periods of fasting in order to meet Jesus. A number of those people are reported to have died in the process, including two children whose deaths in March 2023 were linked to the pastor. Shockingly, several bodies have also been discovered in what we suspect to be secret graves that are used to bury starved followers of Pastor Paul Mackenzie on his 800-acre ranch in Shakahola. The bodies have since been exhumed by the authorities. The pastor has been arrested twice, that is, in 2019 and in March of this year, in relation to the deaths of children. However, he was released on bond and both cases are still pending in the courts. The residents of Kilifi County had urged the court not to release him, decrying the spread of cults in other regions of the country, but their plea was not heeded. As a result, Hon. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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