The mother is waiting for the DNA results on the remains told

Caroline Odar told the BBC that she was desperately afraid of the fate of her two young sons, who were missing two months ago with his father, a follower of the teaching of the notorious leader of the worship of starvation.

Ms Odor says that against the backdrop of a permanent investigation of more deaths related to the cult, she identified her husband’s body in the morgue in the coastal city of Malini.

His corpse was found in July in the village of Kvi Binzar, deepened by Malini and near the remote forest of Shakakhol, where in 2023 more than 400 bodies were found in one of the worst cases of mass death associated with the cult.

MS Odor is now waiting for DNA tests that are held on more than 30 recently excavated body.

“I felt the pain. I barely recognized it. His body was very decomposed”, the 40th Mrs. Odar, 40 years old, Said his husband Samuel Ovoo.

She believes that her sons, 12-year-old Daniel and nine-year-old Ilya, traveled with her 45-year-old father to Kvinzar at the end of June.

Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzi is currently trial over the so-called “Shakhol Forest” have not pleaded guilty of murder.

He supposedly told his followers that they quickly get to heaven when they stop eating – and there were problems that he maintained connection with his followers from prison.

Ms Odar says her husband started listening to Mr. Machenzi’s exercises four years ago.

“He changed and he didn’t want the children to go to school,” she said. “When the children would get sick, he said that God would cure them. He really believed in these exercises.”

Its change in the opinion of formal education and medical interventions caused friction between a couple, which had six children together at his home in Mudulusia in the Busian County, West Kenya, near Lake Victoria.

“The teaching did not make sense to me,” said Ms Odar. “When a child is sick, yes, I believe that God can cure them, but I also know that when the baby is sick, you will take them to the hospital.”

Two months ago, on June 28, the situation worsened when her husband went with his two younger sons.

“He told me that he was going to his native village (from birth),” said Ms Odar. “The last phone call we told me,” We went, God is with you. “And I said to him,” On a safe trip. “

But Ms Odor began to receive suspicious when he did not contact her again.

She later found that she did not go to the village of Parents in Homa Bay, which is also near Lake Victoria, about 200 km (125 miles) south of Mudulus.

After sending her steps, she found that he was on a bus from his house in Busia and traveled with the boys more than 900 km to the east before Kvinzar in Kenyan Kilifi district.

She reported the police and urgently removed the word through different networks trying to find them.

A few weeks ago, she was called, saying that someone who fits her husband’s description was in Morgi’s morgues.

It was a devastating blow.

The lady smell went to the coastal area on August 19 to confirm her husband’s death for herself.

She was told that his body was found in the village of Kvi Binzar on July 19 during a police raid organized from the reports of suspicious disappearances.

Police said he was discovered in the bushes near the house, which is suspected that he was connected with the cult of hunger and seemed to be killed by suppressing.

It is claimed that some victims of the massacre were suppressed when they took too much time to starve to death.

Following the investigation of the Kenya Office of the State Perspective, 11 people were arrested in connection with the case, including three, who were the followers of McCanzi.

Search more bodies started on August 21. So far, 32 bodies have been exhumed and more than 70 parts of the body were found in the forest.

For Mrs. Ode, testifies to a terrible process.

“You see how bodies have been exhumed and you don’t even know the condition of your own children,” she said. “It’s very painful.”

Dr. Raymond Omola, senior civil servant at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said the BBC that the government intends to make tougher laws to resolve religious extremism and radicalization in the country.

“We are working on a bill, a religious bill, to be able to at least have certain parameters for a religious organization – is it a constitution? Who are the leaders? What are their qualification?” he said.

He believes that this will help to provide more responsible groups.

The exhumation near Kvinzar’s Kvinzar was temporarily rejected because the murder and the medical experts are preparing for the study of the remains found so far.

For the residents of the area, the most recent investigation not only shocked them, but also complicated life, because the forest is a vital resource for them.

“We depend on the forest for firewood and charcoal,” BBC said George Conde from Kvinzar. “Now, from what happened, they have not allowed to go. They need to burn out the whole forest and stop these cults once and for all.”

Ms. Oh continues her excruciating expectation to find out about her two sons.

“I was looking forward to one of my sons goes to 7th grade and the other 4th grade,” she said. “Whenever I see a baby in shape, I feel pain out of their absence. I don’t know how in their business.”