Video: Visibly Agitated Paul Mackenzie Captured Lamenting, Giving His Lawyer Firm Instructions In Court

• Pastor Paul Mackenzie and his co-accused were presented before the Shanzu Law Courts on Friday, August 4
• The prosecution had presented a prayer to the court to have Mackenzie and his group be detained further for 47 days
• While appearing before the court, the Good News International church founder was captured in a conversation with his lawyer, whom he was instructing

Mombasa - Suspected cult leader Paul Mackenzie and his co-accused appeared before the Shanzu Law Courts on Friday, August 4, for the hearing of the prayer by the prosecution to have them detained for 47 more days.

Seated in the courtroom, Mackenzie sought audience with his lawyer who he was captured lecturing for a while.

The laid-back lawyer is seen nodding in the affirmative throughout without saying a word.

Mackenzie and his lawyer

He is heard complaining about his maltreatment in the cells, including beatings, and he was apparently isolated from his co-accused.

He was therefore instructing his lawyer to argue his case while considering those issues.

The state investigators wanted more time to conclude their investigations before mounting a case against them.

Mackenzie and co-accused chant in court

Recently, the preacher caused a scene in court after learning the prosecution wanted their detention extended.

Through their attorney, Wycliffe Makasembo, Mackenzie and his fellows argued against the plea, suggesting it would inconvenience them.

They also cited the inhumane conditions in which they are being detained.

While in the courtroom, the group started chanting 'haki yetu', disrupting the proceedings for a while.

Inhumane conditions in detention

They decried being forced to put on prison garments, yet they are not convicted, being forced to be aligned in parades, sleeping on the floor, and relieving themselves inside the bucket(s).

Presiding magistrate Yusuf Shikanda directed the suspects to be held for two more days before the court rules on the prosecution's prayer for their further detention.

Mackenzie and his group are being held for allegedly running occult activities in which many people died.

The controversial preacher was heading the Good News International church whose faithful was brainwashed and made to fast to meet God.

A couple of shallow graves were discovered in the vast Shakahola in Kilifi county; the bodies retrieved from the graves were of Mackenzie's followers who starved to death in the name of fasting.

Government pathologist Johansen Oduor has since then been presiding over the phases of autopsies on the retrieved bodies.