KILIFI Senator Stewart Madzayo now wants the police to come
clean on the bizarre bodies being exhumed from shallow graves at the Kwa Bi
Nzaro forest.
The lawmaker also demanded that the government removes more than 200 bodies currently stored in a container at
Malindi Level 4 Hospital.
“The government should allow people whose kin are missing to
come and identify them. If they cannot be identified, then the government
should bury them. They should not be left there,” he said.
Homicide detectives have exhumed over 40 bodies from the forest.
The latest revelations come barely two years after over 450 bodies
were retrieved from the nearby Shakahola forest in a religious cult case.
Pastor Paul Mackenzie of the Good News International Church
is accused of ordering his followers to starve themselves and their children to
death so that they could go to heaven
Addressing a press conference at Parliament Buildings, Madzayo
said the bodies are not of locals but of people apparently killed somewhere
and ferried for burial there.
“The people of Kilifi are not complaining that their relatives are
missing. These are people who are being
killed out of Kilifi and brought in for burial.”
Madzayo challenged the police to investigate and unearth
where the bodies are being ferried from.
“We demand answers from the police and the national government to explain how this horror could happen again, less than two years
after the Shakahola massacre shocked the conscience of the world,” Madzayo said.
“Is Kwa Bin Zaro being used as a dumping ground to hide
atrocities, where people are killed and buried without a trace?”
The Senate Minority Leader ruled out a religious cult for the
deaths, as was the case in the Shakahola forest.
“I don’t know if this has anything to do with the cult. The police
should be able to tell us why so many people are being killed and brought to Kwa
Bi Nzaro forest for burial in shallow graves,” he said.
Madzayo questioned how bodies of victims could be brought
into Kilifi from elsewhere without being traced, accusing police of silence and
inaction.
He noted that for nearly two years, over 200 bodies have
been stored in Kilifi hospitals, and questioned how much longer the county can
bear the burden.
“How many more bodies must be dug out of our soil before you
admit there is a fundamental breakdown in intelligence and security?”
Just last month, police said they rescued four individuals and were investigating the mysterious deaths of at least three others in another suspected case of religious radicalization in the Bi Nzaro village of Kilifi’s Chakama area.
