Herder recalls stumbling upon a frail man tied to tree in Shakahola

Yussuf Abdi who saved a Paul Makenzi follower who had been tied on a tree to fast. [Marion Kithi, Standard]

The herdsman who stumbled upon the first follower of Good News International (GNI) Church inside the Shakahola Forest in Kilifi has revealed that some of the victims were tied to a tree with a rope.

Yussuf Abdi said he was grazing his goats inside the forest when he came across a frail man who seemed to be in pain, his hands tied to the trunk of a tree with a rope.

"I was herding goats in the thicket sometimes in March when I came across a man tied by the hands on a tree and he looked frail. He told me that he was Paul Makenzi's follower," says Abdi.