Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has stated that the exhumation of bodies from the Shakahola Forest will resume on Tuesday.
The CS said at the moment, 112 bodies were exhumed from graves found in the forest associated with Paul Mackenzie, who has since been arrested.
“On Tuesday I will be officially launching the second phase of the exhumation since the experts are telling us that we still have more graves in the forest which means that the number of bodies will increase,” said Professor Kindiki.
Speaking at St Joseph Benedict Cottollengo Catholic Church in Meru County, he noted that due to security issues, people had been barred from entering the forest, which has so far been declared a security operation zone and that those going there should have a valid reason and should first inform security officers who will after that escort them.
“We have also asked journalists to cooperate with us because the work that is there is very critical and there are photos that we would not like to be taken due to medical and security ethics which do not allow the press to go there and start filming decomposing bodies. We can easily be sued as a government if we allow this to happen,” said Professor Kindiki.
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He said the government has nothing to hide regardless of the number of bodies that will be exhumed from the forest.
“We will tell the world what happened and make sure that the whole truth comes out so that we do not have such an incident again in our country,” said the CS.
He said the government will go after those criminals who were engaged in the deaths of innocent men, women and children and ensure they face the most painful punishment ever found in the law books.
