All Mungiki Trails Are Leading Back To Politicians: Do You Realize What That Means?

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The Mungiki Order To The Police That Only President Kibaki Would Have Given

One of the facts that many Kenyans are determined not to believe is that the Mungiki menace is being financed and directed by leading politicians in the country. However arrests by the police over the last two weeks have proved this fact beyond any reasonable doubt. All their leads keep on ending up on the door step of politicians some of whom lost the last elections and are desperate to get back to parliament.

One thing about the Kenya police, however corrupt or whatever your views on their competency may be is that the record clearly shows that more often than not, they usually get their man. That is when politics is not allowed to interfere.

But the really big news in all this Mungiki chaos is that those who understand the behind-the-scenes turf wars that usually go on are more than a little puzzled. Take for instance the case of Juja MP William Kabogo. The stinking-rich MP has been hitting the headlines all week as his lawyers have been scrambling to court to keep him out of police cells. On Tuesday Police ignored high court orders, picked him up and held him overnight for questioning anyway, in connection to his links with the Mungiki affair. It seems that police have reason to believe that he has links with the outlawed sect. His lawyers however managed to get him out by enforcing the high court orders this morning.

So why is Hon Kabogo a special case? The facts are that in the past this man has been a very powerful figure in the country. Part of the reason has to do with his vast wealth and the other has to do with the kind of business Mr Kabogo operates. This is shrouded in mystery, which usually means that it is the sort of underworld-high-returns business one cannot talk about in a press conference. In fact Mr Kabogo is in the league of people who can easily finance a major presidential candidate's campaign on their own. Some analysts (including this blogger) even mentioned his name as a possible financier of President Kibaki's re-election bid. And that is why the fact that a man so powerful is having problems with the police is such big news.

It is clear from the way the police are behaving (ignoring high court orders) that they have received instructions from the highest authority in the land to get to the bottom of this Mungiki issue. The president deserves praise for this very brave move. I would confidently say that this is the bravest thing he has done in his entire term. It is also the right thing to do. Although politically it would be suicide because it is rapidly emerging that many of his strongest backers have links to Mungiki.

The really bad news from all this is that it is now crystal clear that The Mungiki objectives are purely political and are financed by politicians. And not some dark unknown figures with an unknown agenda to destabilize the country as most Kenyans are desperate to believe. In other words what we have here is politically instigated and financed violence. Period.

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