Crime

Stephen Mwiti, 48, says all six of his children died in Shakahola Forest. His wife took them there in 2022. Cult leader Paul Mackenzie is due to be sentenced on Friday for the murders of 190 children and an adult, the Daily Nation reported. Mwiti and other relatives of the victims fear Mackenzie could keep spreading his deadly message. "Even if he were to be hanged, I will never see my children again," Mwiti told Reuters this week. He spoke while visiting the grave of his son Samuel in the coastal city of Malindi. Samuel was about seven years old when the family entered the forest. He is the only one of Mwiti's children whose remains could be identified. Many of the bodies were badly decomposed. Officials could confirm the identities of only 26 of the more than 400 bodies recovered from the forest. Prosecutors said Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so they could go to heaven before the world ended. Mackenzie and 28 co-defendants were convicted of murder last month. Mwiti's wife is one of them. They could…

Residents of Kisumu say fear has become part of daily life after two weeks of violent robberies, Citizen Digital reported. A video that went viral on Wednesday shows armed men trying to vandalise a lorry. They fled after the person inside screamed for help. The screams brought neighbours out, and some filmed the attack. The gang threatened those recording before retreating, according to Citizen Digital. The violence has been escalating. On Saturday, armed robbers attacked and killed a middle-aged man in Ahero. By Tuesday, two more people had been injured in a machete attack in Migosi Estate. Several shops have also been broken into, and business owners are counting their losses. Two days before the lorry incident, residents made a citizen's arrest…