Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has said it is highly likely that controversial pastor Paul Mackenzie will be charged with genocide.
Speaking on Tuesday when he visited Kilifi, Kindiki said Mackenzie and all his collaborators have a date with destiny.
"Over and above charging Mackenzie with terrorism, I'm convinced that a case can be built for charging him and his collaborators with genocide," he said.
Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
Kindiki said he is convinced Kilifi cult is the turning point on how the government will handle threats to security caused by religious extremism.
"The government admits the deaths should never have happened but we assure Kenyans that nothing like what has been witnessed in Shakahola will happen," he said.
He urged Kenyans to stop pointing fingers as to who is responsible and rally together to save lives.
Kindiki, however, backed the Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji's call to charge Mackenzie with terrorism.
"It is possible to charge them with a crime of genocide under the International and Kenyan law," he added.
"Article two of the United Nation Convention of 1948 for the prevention and punishment of crime genocide, defines genocide as any of the following Acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part a racial, national ethnic or religious group."
Kindiki said that Mackenzie had caused a lot of harm before being caught up recently.
By Tuesday, at least 90 bodies had been exhumed from dozens of shallow graves in Mackenzie's 800-acre piece of land in Shakahola, Kilifi County.
Some 32 others had been rescued by detectives, some on the brink of death after days, or perhaps weeks of fasting.
Mackenzie is believed to have persuaded them to starve themselves to death on the false belief that they will ascend to heaven.
