Kenyan President Apologizes for Tragedy of “Doomsday” Sect Followers

The President of Kenya apologized for the tragedy of the followers of the “Doomsday” sect in his country, the details of which have recently shocked the world, after dozens of those who were deceived in the name of religion claimed their lives.

William Ruto admitted that government inaction and inaction contributed to the tragedy. He also blamed the country’s security and intelligence services for failing at an early stage to monitor the activities of the sect that incited its followers to experience mass death.

The sect preaches to its followers salvation and entry into Paradise before the Hour begins, and urges them to starve themselves to the point of death to achieve this.

And the Kenyan authorities continue to exhume the bodies, which has increased the total number to more than two hundred bodies, all of whom were convinced that they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death. More than 600 other people are still missing according to reports received.

Police are exhuming random graves scattered throughout the forest, which have been sealed off and declared as a crime scene.

Police confirm that some of the exhumed bodies are suspected of being strangled, indicating that their owners were buried while they were still alive.

In the context of what has been revealed recently about the practices of that sect, it was stated that its leaders deliberately starve the children first and leave them to “fast in the sun so that their souls perish as quickly as possible.”

The sect’s leader, Paul Mackenzie Nthingi, has been charged with an act amounting to a terrorist offence, using religion to misinform and encourage mass suicide, and authorities refuse to release him on bail.

But the latter denies all the accusations leveled against him, and insists that he closed the church and stopped its work since 2019.

Kenya, whose society is described as religious, has witnessed many previous cases, in which hundreds joined religious sects affiliated with irregular churches, and practiced rituals described as dangerous.