Ezekiel Odero, a televangelist with the New Life Prayer Centre and Church, has been detained in connection with alleged public indoctrination.
He was detained the day after being interrogated for hours on claims that his church also practices occultism.
The preacher was detained, according to Coast Regional Commissioner Rhodah Onyancha, in Makueni, Kilifi county.
She claimed that this was because there had allegedly been fatalities on his property.
The New Life Prayer Centre and Church was also closed.
In a Wednesday meeting with Kilifi detectives, the pastor refuted allegations of occult activity at his church.
He’s being taken to Mombasa to be grilled. More details will be made available, she promised.
He is at Coast Police Central right now. The continued exhumation of bodies from a farm in Shakahola Forest, according to police who were informed of the happenings, was what led to the decision to summon him on Wednesday.
Paul Mackenzie, the pastor of Good News International Church, has ties to the farm.
According to officials, 95 remains have so far been found in graves in the forest.
