{"id":1181,"date":"2026-11-08T15:39:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2026-11-08T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:39:48","slug":"paul-mackenzie-sentenced-to-200-years-over-shakahola-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"PAUL MACKENZIE SENTENCED TO 200 YEARS OVER SHAKAHOLA MASSACRE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie has been sentenced to 200 years in prison over his involvement in the Shakahola Forest massacre. The court found him responsible for the deaths of followers who were encouraged to starve themselves in the belief that they would reach heaven.<br>The case, which shocked the country in 2023, has renewed calls for stronger government regulation of religious institutions and protection of vulnerable citizens. Twenty-eight accomplices were also convicted and handed prison sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1019\" src=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot_20261108-182839_ChatGPT-1024x1019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot_20261108-182839_ChatGPT-1024x1019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot_20261108-182839_ChatGPT-300x299.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot_20261108-182839_ChatGPT-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot_20261108-182839_ChatGPT-768x764.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot_20261108-182839_ChatGPT.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie has been sentenced to 200 years in prison over his involvement in the Shakahola Forest massacre. The court found him responsible for the deaths of followers who were encouraged to starve themselves in the belief that they would reach heaven.The case, which shocked the country in 2023, has renewed calls for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}