Committee wants police questioned over freshly buried bodies in Shakahola forest

Benson Karisa Ngirani, chair of the Kilifi Ad-hoc Committee on Shakahola and Ganze Ward MCA says that the discovery of freshly dug graves in the forest had puzzled everyone, especially given the extensive police presence at the vast farm.

Ngirani told the media after meeting with the Danson Mungatana-led Senate committee on Shakahola that the committee suspects that the government has not fully secured the entire forest as it claims leaving other areas open to misuse.

"Hilo swala limekuja kama mshangao kwetu, kwa hii shamba kumekuwa na polisi wamewekwa kila mahali, Ikakuwa aje tena miili mipya kuzikwa?" Ngirani posed.

"Mimi nafikiria kwa mawazo yangu kwamba polisi hawajacover ile shamba yote, maybe kuna section ingine ya forest kwenye hii mchezo inaendelea."

According to Ngirani, the security agencies stationed on the estate must explain the mystery of new bodies discovered buried in shallow graves in the heavily fortified forest.

"Security agencies waje peupe waeleze ni nini inaendelea kwa sababu kupata miili mpya na forest iko covered na polisi ni mshangao," he added.

The Daily Nation reported last week that recent exhumations at Shakahola had revealed several bodies that appeared to have been buried when a multi-agency exhumation team took a two-week break.

The graves, according to the report, were shallow with loose clumps of earth on top and ashes around the edges, raising questions about who was still burying bodies amid the ongoing investigation into the Shakahola massacre.

Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie of the Good News International Church is currently being held by police in connection to the recovered bodies believed to be his followers who starved themselves to death 'in order to meet Jesus'.