Why The Mungiki Were Present In Kenya Before '63?

That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there anything of which it may be said,
"See, this is new"?
It has already been in ancient times before us.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10

The 1950s were dangerous times in colonial Kenya mainly because a new oath-taking organization had sprung up literally from nowhere and caused great fear amongst Kenyans in the colony. I say Kenyans because nobody was spared. Members of the settler community were brutally murdered and native African collaborators would also lose their heads.

At one time the group sent a chilling threat to a man called Johnstone Kamau who abhorred violence and was rumoured to have condemned the movement. Mr Kamau promptly changed his ways. You just did not mess up with this terror gang.
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Mungiki secrets

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This man Johnstone Kamau was to later be widely known by Kenyans as Jomo Kenyatta (actually a nick name that ended up sticking that mainly emerged from the Masai belt the young fashionable man was fond of wearing.) The terror group came to be widely known as the Mau Mau.

Fast forward to the late 1990s and yet another brand new terror group sprung up in Kenya. It came to be known as Mungiki.

The similarities between Mau Mau and Mungiki are uncanny. They are those know-it-all-types who regularly read this blog who will loudly and abusively protest the comparison between Mungiki and Mau Mau. Mau mau, they will say was a noble freedom fighting group. The facts are that at the time, Mau mau were seen as nothing but a terror gang of mostly dreadlocked snuff-consuming mad men who liked living in the forest like wild animals. In fact the Mau Mau were not nationalists fighting for independence but was in fact a group of persons mainly from one ethnic group fighting in the only way they knew how to have their stolen land returned to them. Still it is accurate that the Mau Mau rebellion was a major contributing factor to bringing the reluctant colonial government to the negotiation table for what finally led to independence.

But there are those who insist that Kenya was never really liberated from the clutches of oppressive colonial rule. What simply happened was that the colonial master changed from a white land grabber to a black indigenous colonial master. We widely refer to this group today as the political ruling class.

If you want to confirm the fact that little has changed in Kenya, just take a trip to the plush Karen suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi. You will be shocked. This is the land of endless opportunity where failures with no talent have for decades arrived penniless and ended up making a brand new life for themselves. It is difficult to convince many of the indigenous Kenyans who work in these homes that things have changed for the better since the 1950s. That Kenya is an independent African state where Kenyans should jivunia kua Mkenya. In fact they will understand you better when you tell them that Navumilia Kua Mkenya.

Although many African Kenyans have moved into the Karen suburb in recent years, they have never penetrated the mzungu community there where today, over 40 years since the Union Jack was lowered for the last time, we still have parties where the only black faces are waiters and waitresses serving food and cooks sweating it out in the Kitchens. That's independent Kenya for you.

There is no denying the fact that most White Europeans have no respect for indigenous local African Kenyans. I personally know of a company close to the city mortuary in Nairobi where locals are treated like something the cat dragged in. Yet many of the Whites in management positions at the firm don't even have work permits.

But white people are not the only oppressors of Kenyans. The ruling class who are the same colour of skin as most indigenous Kenyans are. Even as you read this, members of this class are still regularly grabbing land from widows, the defenseless and the weak. Members of this class are the most vocal and opinionated when the issue of street hawkers is discussed. But hold on a minute, how did these guys make their money?

You already know the answer to that question. It is from corruption of course.

This is the environment (not very different from that of 1952) that has birthed a violent terror group called Mungiki.

But yesterday in Kiambu, the Mungiki wars were caught in camera and in full view of Kenyans in their living rooms, we saw what our country has been reduced to, even as we loudly shout the names of certain individuals in the ruling class as being the best candidates for president.

Touts and drivers in the area gave the police a week to deal with the Mungiki failure of which they would take the law into their own hands. That deadline expired yesterday and we saw a suspected Mungiki member being bludgeoned to death. This amazing footage was captured by a KTN camerman positioned on the roof of some building and making excellent use of the amazing zoom-in capabilities of the latest broadcast quality video cameras.

Now all we need to do is wait for the inevitable Mungiki legendary revenge attacks which will surely come. When will all this blood-letting stop? Is there a government in Kenya?

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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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