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Africanews

A 32 year old Kenyan security guard, Philipp Onyancha, has confessed to 19 murders and intends to kill 100 people in 5 years, fuelled by belief in spirits and greed, local media reported on Thursday.

Police official, Richard Katola, has disclosed that crime rate of Onyancha has shocked investigators on confession earlier this week upon his arrest. According to the Earth Times web,

"He has helped us a lot in resolving murder cases which were a mystery to us," he added.
Onyancha is a member of a cult, which reportedly convinced him that he would become one of the country's richest men if he killed dozens of people and drank their blood.

"Since I got into this thing, I have always had a passion to kill." He told the broadcaster Capital FM, in handcuffs and guarded by police officers, whom he had led to the crime scenes.

The heavily armed officers were there not only to prevent Onyancha from fleeing, but also to protect him from a lynching mob.

He disclosed that he usually find his victims primarily in Nairobi and central Kenya's Rift Valley - mostly women and children."I always went for the weak in the society," Onyancha told Capital FM without showing much emotion. "It was not my fault; it was the spirits in me."

A body was exhumed on Wednesday from a property next to the German embassy in Nairobi.
two years ago, another woman was found hidden in a ceiling of a shopping-center maintenance room in the high-end suburb of Karen.

Onyancha said he believes his confession has broken the power of the spirits. Until his arrest, he had felt invulnerable.

"I was very sure nobody could ever arrest me," he told Capital FM. "I feel relieved ... It was not my wish to do these evils, ... but you see I was not myself."

The news has however left business owners and workers aghast.

The 32 year old security guard Onyancha is hired to protect a nearby diplomat's house from burglars.