Controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie now says he does not know why he is in police custody.
Speaking to a K24 TV journalist on Friday, Mackenzie added that he cannot see any progress in the case before him.
"Kwa kweli hata sioni progress. Na sijui kwa nini niko hapa kwanza. Kwa hivo wacha tusubiri tusikie (Honestly, I can't see any progress. I don't even know why I'm here. So let us wait and hear what is next)," he said.
The preacher and other 17 co-accused persons were in Shanzu Court where they had been arraigned.
He also said he was not aware of what was happening at the Shakahola forest, noting that he has been in custody for more than a month.
Mackenzie is the main suspect in the Shakahola murders where over 240 people suspected to be members of his Good News International church died.
It is believed that the preacher, through indoctrinated teachings, told his followers to fast to death in order to meet Jesus.
Despite Mackenzie saying that he does not know why he was arrested and is in court, a video showing Mackenzie shortly after his arrest contradicts his recent remarks.
In a video on April 15, he was heard warning police and people who had gathered around the police car not to look into the matter because it will come to haunt them.
"Mnachopigana nacho hamkijui na kitawaramba, kitawaramba nawaambia," he said.
(You don't know what you are fighting with, it will haunt you I tell you).
Mackenzie's arrest came about after two children were found dead at the Chakama location.
Interior CS Kithure Kindiki said the two were starved to death and later buried in shallow graves within the forest.
On May 26, Kindiki said Mackenzie had hired armed criminals to kill those who changed their minds about the fasting orders.
Appearing before the Senate Ad hoc Committee on the Proliferation of Religious Organisations, the CS said most victims died of starvation but a good number died of injuries inflicted on them by blunt objects or lack of oxygen.
"In the event, somebody would change their mind, they would be hit by a blunt object or strangled to death by the supervisors," he said.
