{"id":41420,"date":"2023-08-07T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kenya-preacher-mackenzie-decries-prison-hardship-says-ready-to-die"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T15:07:03","slug":"kenya-preacher-mackenzie-decries-prison-hardship-says-ready-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kenya-preacher-mackenzie-decries-prison-hardship-says-ready-to-die","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Preacher Mackenzie decries prison hardship, says ready to die"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>Kenya\u2019s doomsday preacher Paul Mackenzie, who stands accused of orchestrating mass starvation and the deaths of his followers to meet Biblical Jesus, has decried being subjected to hardship in prison.<\/p>\n

Mackenzie reportedly complained to the court about his alleged inhumane treatment, saying he has been jailed in an isolated dark cell and denied the chance to bathe for two days.<\/p>\n

The self-proclaimed end-times prophet said he and his associates are ready and willing to die from the difficulties.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy colleagues and I have made a decision. If you feel tired of me and my colleagues, we are ready to be taken to River Yala. We do not have a problem with that because I will die, and you the prosecutor will someday die like me. There is nowhere you can hide,\u201d he told a court magistrate, according to Nation newspaper.<\/p>\n

I am being held in a dark room. And my request for at least an hour in the sun has been flatly denied. I feel unheard and ignored, and I am not sure who or where else I can turn to for help. If I go to the prosecution for help, they reject me because they see me as radicalized,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

His lawyer also claims Mackenzie is being served food that he feared to be contaminated with the intention to harm him.<\/p>\n

The leader of the Good News International Church and his jailed associates are also said to be threatening to go on a hunger strike to protest the treatment.<\/p>\n

He is accused of manipulating his followers into seeking salvation, and dozens died in the process of fasting so as to meet Jesus as promised by their preacher.<\/p>\n

Mackenzie himself and his associates were said to be served a healthy balanced diet as his followers starved.<\/p>\n

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