BY DICKENS WASONGA .
TWO MPs from Nyanza want the government to move with speed and crack-down the out-lawed mungiki sect and its activities ones and for all.
Rarieda MP ,Eng. Nicholas Gumbo and his Kasipul-Kabondo countarpart Oyugi Magwanga accused the state of not being serious in dealing with the group which has visited mayhelm in different parts of the country in the recent past.
The two legislators who spoke to this writer in seperate interviews said the police and other law enforcement agencies should be mobilised to crack-down the group and no excuse should be entertained.
They wondered why the same force employed by the government to deal with youths protesting the disputed election results has not been used to clear Mungiki, alawless out fit which continue to kill and maim innocent Kenyans.
The duo said it was morally wrong for the government to behave as though the sect was licenced to carry out its henious acts and people who openly associate with it are allowed to get away with it.
Speaking on phone the two Mps added that the fact that the wife to th sect chaiman was killed was not enough reason for its followers to turn their wrath on the public who knew absolutely nothing to do with the incident.
”How can a group which has been out-lawed march in the city streets in broad day light to press for the release of a man who was convicted legally through the courts.,?” said Magwanga.
Kenyans woke up this last week to a rude shoke when the group members barricaded major roads countrywide to protest what they claimed was harassment by the police.
During the orgy of violence visited on unsuspecting motorists, several cars were burnt down and tyres lit on the roads.
The group seem to have defied the police and throughout the week operated as though they had taken over the running of some parts of the country which was just beginning to recover from the post election skirmishes.
ENDS.
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:47:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dickens Wasonga
Subject: GOVT URGED TO ACT TOUGH ON MUNGIKI
The government of Kibaki should come out clear about mungiki
issue.It is well known that Gema leaders are aware of the organisation’s aims and objectives. Whenever Mungiki factors is
being discussed in the national forum,these leaders always appear ignorance and yet they are fully aware of its aims and objectives.
It was a common knowledge that during and after election,the gema leaders shamelessly used this group to cause chaos. Many
inocent kenyans were killed.These mungiki have been talking oath since the group was created,but there is no one day that
gema leaders have spoken against taking oath. There is no time
that these leaders have talked of even deoathing these young
people who might have taken oathing through ignorance.
It is quite strange that even church leaders in mt.kenya region
is not helping the situation. It looks that the all leadership in the
region is supporting mungiki.
I just wonder why somebody sene wants bring in Raila in this
gema issue where they know all about mungiki. If at all
the gema people wanted Raila to deal with mungiki ,security docket could have given to ODM.So Raila could have nominated
a n effective person to man the docket.