Government Suspends Shakahola Mass Graves Exhumation
Due to the adverse weather conditions. The government has decided to pause the process of exhuming bodies from Shakahola Forest in Kilifi County.
Prof. Kithure Kindiki, the Secretary of the Interior Cabinet, announced on Friday. After touring the area where more than one hundred bodies, believed to be members of the congregation of the controversial pastor Paul Mackenzie, have been unearthed.
“The specialists that we consulted informed us that the process of conducting exhumations for judicial and court procedures involves a great deal of sensitivity. “For them to be able to conduct the exhumations without interfering with the evidence or further damaging the bodies, the ground needs to be dry to a certain level,” he explained. “This will allow them to conduct the exhumations.”
Because of the weather, we have had to temporarily stop the exhumations But as soon as it dries out even a little bit, we will start back up again.
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The Secretary of the Interior also weighed in on the question of why members of the press and organizations concerned with human rights have been prevented from entering the grounds and observing the exhumation procedure.
“The process of exhuming the bodies is a court-ordered process. It is done based on certain ethical and professional standards. And that is why we cannot allow everybody to take part in the exhumation, or to take images,” he said. “The process of exhuming the bodies is done based on certain ethical and professional standards.”
“Such images are prohibited even by international law because they constitute revolting transgressions against human decency,” the report said. Because these are the bodies of people’s loved ones and kin, even the capabilities of security agents are limited. “These are the bodies of people’s loved ones and kin.
He added that the State is also restricting the movement of law enforcement agents who have access to the grounds.
Government Suspends Shakahola Mass Graves Exhumation
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