Police have summoned a controversial Kenyan preacher as the government tightens down on what it terms renegade churches and radical religious leaders.

On Tuesday, Eliud Wekesa, famously known as "Jesus of Tongaren" and the leader of the New Jerusalem sect, was summoned for interrogation over his questionable religious beliefs.

He has convinced his church members to believe that he is Jesus. Mr. Wekesa has 12 disciples named after biblical Jacob's descendants.

On Wednesday, he is scheduled to appear before police in the western county of Bungoma.

According to local media, the preacher claims he has done nothing wrong to deserve his detention and that he only shares the gospel.

This comes as investigators on Tuesday exhumed 21 more bodies in the coastal Kilifi county, bringing the total of those known to have died in the doomsday cult to 133.

Pastor Paul Mackenzie, the leader of the Good News International Church based in Kilifi, is awaiting trial, amid accusations of ordering his followers to starve themselves to death.

Hundreds of others have been reported missing.

President William Ruto has formed a commission of inquiry to probe the now-called Shakahola cult deaths in Kilifi county.

Police in the neighbouring Kwale county on Monday rescued 200 people, including 50 children, from a forest in a suspected case of religious kidnapping.