Following the brutal murder of a matatu driver early this week in the hands of the dreaded Mungiki sect and the bloody aftermath in Kiambu, the government has now established a unit to specifically deal with the blood-thirsty sect that seeks to control the transport industry.
For the past five years, the sect has grown monumentally as the government turned a blind eye on their activities not to mention that majority of them belong to the Kikuyu community.
The sect which is said to have originated from Nyandarua has hundreds of thousands of followers including women and children and make money through extortion and running protection rackets in slums. Remember the mafia in the United States during the 40s?
They have also made a fortune by controlling matatu routes where public service vehicles are forced to part with between Sh 100-200 per day failure to which the crew is threatened with violence and even death.
The slain driver whose body was mutilated and beheaded, had refused to pay the extortion money hence the slaying. In a revenge attack, matatu drivers and touts slashed and bludgeoned four suspected Mungiki adherents the following day before police stepped in to patrol the routes.
Mungiki is probably the largest criminal gang in the country involved in organized crime and has a well-disciplined force, mostly consisting of zealots who will not hesitate to kill those perceived to be against the organization even if they happen to be policemen.
With the government forming a special unit to battle the sect it is obvious that their activities have created a security crisis in the country and they have to be stopped at all costs.
The government knows a lot about the sect including its leadership structures but has previously not taken any interest as the sect was not involved in any illegal activities and were simply considered religious zealots.
Now that the sect has reared its ugliest side, the government has chosen to move fast and
stop these butchers who deal in human flesh as thet have wrecked havoc in several towns in the country but seem to have a stranglehold on Nairobi and Nakuru.
It will be interesting to see how the crackdown goes considering that both Mungiki and the ruling elite belong to the same community and now need each other more than ever before since this is an election year.
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"It will be interesting to see how the crackdown goes considering that both Mungiki and the ruling elite belong to the same community and now need each other more than ever before since this is an election year"
ReplyDeleteAre you therefore implying that all kikuyu criminals (including matheri) might not be sought by the government just because they are kikuyu???
It is for such comments that people are on your case Chris!! Your lack of integrity combined with orangutan ignorance is appalling!
and dont go sayin i must be a kikuyu...am not...am just a level headed, peace loving kenyan
The fact that you give yourself a "nationalistic" sounding name can hardly hide the fact that you are a Kyuk and trying to defend the indefensible, "Nandwa". The simple truth is that the governing class don't give a pink goddamn about Mungiki. what did Michuki tell us when Mungiki first reared its head after the peaceful elections of 2002? I dare you to say what the gov't has done so far to eliminate this Kikuyu menace that assumes that since other tribes are pacifistic, we are all bitches that can bend backward to Mungiki and scamper off at the very mention of the word. We have had enough and patience, although a virtue, can sometimes run short. Beware.
ReplyDeleteBereta Nandwa, The only people on Chris's case are from one region; It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that.
ReplyDeleteI have said it before and will repeat it again, the kikuyu are very nice people socialy and economicaly, but politicaly they always miss the point by "isolating" themselves, I wasn't surprised when one of Kumekucha's topics was about Kikuyu Vs the Rest of the country.