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    "id": 1236143,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, allow me to give a highlight of some of the key matters arising out of this Motion. The Good News International Ministries is believed to have been founded in Kenya in 2003 by Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and his wife Joyce Mwikamba and operated for a long time in Migingo in Malindi. The church has had various run-ins with the law and has largely been associated with radicalism. In 2017, Mr. Mackenzie and his wife were charged with promoting radicalisation as well as denying children access to healthcare and education and running a school and a television station unauthorised. The latter precipitated the closure of the television station the following year by the Government. In 2017, the then Member of Parliament for Malindi, Hon. Aisha Jumwa, had a run-in and exposed this pastor then when he started his cultic activities. He told children not to go to school. He asked graduates from universities to tear up their degrees and diploma certificates and told them that education is not part of God’s plan. This shocked the nation. Hon. Jumwa stood her ground but because at that time Hon. Aisha Jumwa was associated with the then Deputy President, she was shut up and Mackenzie was allowed to continue until now when we have an Inspector-General of Police who has come out strongly to say the man must now be apprehended. But in 2017, nobody bothered. In 2018, community leaders in Malindi said Mackenzie was dangerous but nobody listened. He ran a television station that taught radical things. I remember the chairman then of the Kenya Film Classification Board pulled down the station but there are people in Government who said the station could go on. They even took him to court but was released. Red flags were raised about Pastor Paul Mackenzie but nobody in the Government listened then. Mackenzie also faced other controversies. In 2019, he was arrested for inciting the public against registration of the Huduma Namba by likening it to the biblical number of the beast 666. Mackenzie was arrested and taken to court. Influential people said he should be released. He was released. Pastor Mackenzie said the Constitution of Kenya was an evil document brought to Kenya by the devil himself. A red flag was raised, but somehow he found his way back again into circulation to continue to preach that gospel. He actually said the Constitution of Kenya is satanic but he was allowed to continue with his work. He has resurfaced again in 2023. This time it is tragic. He is believed to have brainwashed his followers into starvation, yet he eats. He is a father of 17 children, who are eating and feeding well. His wife lives in a beautiful house, eating and feeding well while he tells his followers not to eat because it is time for them to meet Jesus. That is the tragedy of Paul Mackenzie. His 17 children and wife are doing very well and living comfortably. Over 90 bodies have been exhumed and still counting. It is believed by eye witnesses that we are likely to find over 200 bodies buried in that 800-acre farm. This is a tragedy. This is terrorism. This is a man who has the mind of killing people and derives pleasure in watching people die. This is a man who has committed genocide on this soil; a man who should not be walking on the streets of this country. This is a man who should be behind bars. Actually, he is safer behind bars than out. The Judiciary cannot go without blame. Even when red flags had been raised about possible terrorist activities by this pastor, when he was taken to court in March he was released 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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