In 2019, he shut down the main church and took his followers to the Shakahola Forest, promising affordable arable land, but were met with armed militia who enforced the fasting and deaths of followers, Kenya’s human rights body found.
Members of the cult lived in mud houses scattered across the forest.
Peter Shukrani, 23, told the BBC his family fell into Mackenzie’s grasps when he was just eight years old.
“My mother would throw away all the medicine I was supposed to take because she believe that only God could heal me,” he said.
Mackenzie, wearing a striped polo shirt and red trousers, was silent as the judge read out his name.
He will be sentenced on November 6.
