From: mesh musyoki
Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:21 AM

Sorry good people i have been unable to contribute to debates as oftenly is i would want to.

This is my take on this Maina Njenga issue:-

Lets first accept that the gang has a following of around 2million youth as of a research that was carried on by a professor friend of mine recently. Most of these people are domiciled in urban areas with Nairobi having the largest number by virtue of it being the biggest town in Kenya and again most of them have run away from their native homes fearing a citizen onslaught witnessed in the recent past in several parts of central Kenya. That adequately explains why there was such a heavy presence of adherents to receive him around Tom Mboya ,Haille Sellasie area, its where most matatu terminals are situated.This is quite a following, the only problem is that it draws its following predominantly from the kikuyu youth and gema by extension. The biggest fundamental problem is that their quasi religious organization is based on shallow ideology and crude use of violence to force a thinking on people. Their calculation is that for you to colonize people you have to terrorize them first (beat them in to line). The big number of fresh recruits were actually willing partakers who were protesting against the post election violence meted on their relatives by a government that is headed by their tribesman and as yet provided no tangible protection for their kinsmen. This is when they managed to hit the one million member mark, just immediately after the post election violence. The real structure of the group is nothing that really has any good of the country at heart, is simply a quasi religious extortionist group capitalizing on terror to force extortion on us,period. That was the initial and still is the operational manual of the pseudo political entity that it is. I have followed keenly the story of Maina Njenga since his release and one thing i have noted is that he has not denounced the group, he has just been telling his fellow crooks to shun violence and convert to Christianity. Hasn’t told them to stop extortion or alternative taxation or engage in gainful enterprise.

Why he hasnt done that is because he is the chief beneficiary of their extortion activities in that the money flows like funnel. The guy at the stage gets 1000 per day, keeps 200, submits 800 to his regional coordinator,coordinator submits 600 to his boss who submits 400 to Maina’s Lieutenant then Maina gets 200 out of every day’s collection of each Mungiki extortionist. Now multiply that by a modest number of approximately 2000 extortionists and you get 400,000kenya shillings. Thats what the fellow gets from society per day. The same explains how he has been able to acquire a multi million property in Isinya and engage in commercial farming even when we all knew he was serving a jail term. Remember this is a different property from the one in Kitengela which is also multi million worth.

What he has done is that he had to re-invent himself so as to stay relevant on the national political front and that he did cleverly. JIAM is the only big church belonging to a mainstream politician and more so in ODM. So it was by calculation so as for him to serve as Raila’s link to the Kikuyu youth. Remember Margaret Wanjiru had traveled earlier to see him in jail? Its because they knew that with the affidavit he had sworn implicating senior PNU politicians was causing much heat in govt. so his release was imminent. They cleverly provided him with a soft landing and a grand reception so as to send amass message to his followers that their kinsmen don’t as much care about them so they can as well look elsewhere for leadership.

I hope ihave made apoint here, however,i stand to be corrected.

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Subject: OF MAINA NJENGA AND THE BIG DECEPTION