The government has declared a church owned by controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie as an organised criminal group. In a gazette notice issued on Wednesday, Cabinet Secretary for Internal Affairs and National Administration Kithure Kindiki designated Good News International Ministries; the church based in Malindi, Kilifi County as an organised criminal group under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act number 6 of 2010. “In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22(1) of the Prevention of Organized Crimes Act, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration declares Good News International Ministries to be an organised criminal group for the purposes of the Act,” read the notice. By the time he was charged, the bodies of 429 people, including children, had been exhumed from mass graves in Shakahola, a forest in Malindi, Kilifi County. Bail application“This is subjecting children to torture and it is contrary to the law under the Children Act,” read the magistrate.
