Mungiki Secrets

The Mungiki for all intents and purposes is a secret terror organization. Their real objective is to fight for a livelihood and respectable living for the its’ members amongst the downtrodden masses of Kenya.

In the hopelessness that is the Kenya of today, it is not difficult for the group to get a steady stream of recruits amongst the youth of Kenya.

The government collects taxes and the resulting corruption puts that money into the pockets of a few people. The law allows a Member of Parliament to enact a law that legally allows them to "loot" close to Kshs 800,000 of tax payers money every month. So who will enact a law for the ordinary Kenyan who is out of a job to collect just enough from the same pot to put food on the table when they are out of work?

That is why the Mungiki opt to collect taxes of their own to enable them earn a livelihood and fend for themselves. They actually see no wrong in that. And as much as this is against the "law", when you look at scandals like Anglo Leasing and Goldenberg and the obscene salaries of MPs, you quickly find that any argument you may have had is greatly weakened.

What makes the whole Mungiki issue so complex and confusing is that they usually do not have any qualms taking money from politicians for “political odd jobs” like intimidating people etc. To them this is just another profit center and they do not see any contradiction between doing this and their objectives.

I interviewed a former Mungiki leader in 2002 and he told me that once somebody has joined the secret organization, it is impossible to leave. There is the oath that they take which makes them fearless and death is not a big deal anymore. That is what makes them so dangerous. And that is exactly what made Mau Mau so dangerous in the 1950s. The punishment for deserters and traitors is the same for Mungiki as it was for Mau mau. You get your head separated from the rest of your body, pure and simple.

He also confirmed to me that the Mungiki undergo some form of military training in secret locations that are mostly deep in the forest. They are then worn to secrecy and that is why so little is known of the organization to this day. In fact most Kenyans are convinced that this is just a disorganized group of blood-thirsty young men and wonder why the police have such difficulties in dealing with them.

The only way to deal with Mungiki once and for all is for a new government in Kenya to address the root cause of its' very existence which is the hopelessness that we have reduced most citizens of this great nation to.

If that approach is not taken, then we will continue with the crisis management strategy that has been used ineffectively for years now.

In other words only a true second liberation in Kenya will result in the Mungikis coming out of the forest or the organization running out of steam. Sadly the strategy used to crash the Mau Mau in 1952 will not work this time round.

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