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More articles on this topic: MungikiSuspected Mungiki sect members yesterday issued fresh threats as the government and 25 MPs from parts of Central and Rift Valley provinces declared total war on the outlawed group.
As leaflets believed to have been issued by members of the sect were circulated in Kiria-ini area of Murang’a district with fresh threats, a meeting convened by Head of the Civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet Francis Muthaura with the MPs, vowed to use all possible means to wipe out the sect.
The leaflets contained threats by the sect to behead 20 more people, among them ten police officers and local residents suspected to be cooperating with the government.
But elsewhere, ODM-K presidential hopeful Raila Odinga criticised the manner in which the government has been handling the Mungiki menace.
Upon his arrival in the country from Britain, KANU Chairman Uhuru Kenyatta told the government to deal firmly with the sect whose activities, he said, posed both national and international threats.
Raila on his part criticised the Monday killing of 24 suspected Mungiki adherents by police in Mathare slums, describing the action as massacre.
Raila said the law enforcers had no justification to go on a killing spree of the suspects to avenge the killing of two of their colleagues.
He said the officers should have arrested the victims in order to grill them to get information that would help them solve the mystery behind the Mungiki sect terror that has left tens of people grisly murdered in Kiambu, Muranga and Nairobi in the recent past.
Addressing a press conference before proceeding on a campaign trail in Sururu, Mauche, Molo, Kuresoi and Rongai areas, Raila called for the resignation of the Internal Security Minister, John Michuki for allegedly failing to contain the Mungiki menace
In their latest leaflets, the sect threatened to behead 20 more people, among them 10 police officers and local residents suspected to be cooperating with the government in its crackdown.
They also threatened to behead matatu operators and owners of homesteads that default on the payment of the daily Sh 200 and monthly Sh 100 protection fee respectively.
Acting Murang’a North district police boss Albert Kimathi, however, assured residents that the government had beefed up security in the area .
He confirmed that the police were aware that the sect was demanding for a protection fee of Sh 200 from every matatu and Sh 100 from every homestead each month and another Sh 50 from every small business in Kahuro division.
Mr Kimathi assured residents that the police had intensified patrols in the area to ensure that all suspected members of the sect were arrested and arraigned in court.
Internal Security minister John Michu, briefing the press after a meeting with the legislators in Nairobi, said they had resolved to use a two-pronged approach to fight members of the sect that have left a trail of deaths wherever they have struck.
Among the issues agreed upon was that the government deals with the sect members firmly while the MPs sensitise the residents on the need for peaceful co-existence.
“We have agreed that the government continues to deal firmly with the criminal elements in the affected areas according to the law ,” said Michuki.
He said the legislators had undertaken to deal with the economic and social issues by discouraging them from engaging themselves in criminal activities.
The MPs are also expected to encourage youths in the affected areas to apply for financial assistance from devolved funds such as Constituency Development Fund (CDF), Women Enterprise Fund and the Youth Enterprise Fund to start income-generating activities.
The youth can as well apply for other fundings from the Hawkers Markets Micro Enterprise Fund.
Michuki said that the widely publicised murderous wave being blamed on Mungiki members had caused a state of fear and panic amongst Kenyans.
The minister, whose home district of Muranga has heavily been affected by criminal activities of the Mungiki sect, appealed to politicians to refrain from making inflammatory and inciting statements.
Earlier, Michuki had held a two-hour consultative meeting with various heads of government security agencies among them the Commissioner of Police Major General Hussein Ali, Director of Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Gatiba Karanja, Director of National Security Intelligence Services (NSIS) Major-General Michael Gichangi, among others.
The leaflets in Muranga were in circulation only hours after two suspected members of the outlawed sect were on Tuesday shot dead and more than 20 others arrested by police in Kahuro division in a major operation following the beheading of four people on Monday night.
The two who were identified as Patrick Kamau and Henry Kaberia were in a gang of 20 people who were waylaid in a forest near Gitiri village by police who were patrolling the area in search of the attackers during Monday’s killings in the district in which an elderly couple was among those hacked to death.
On Monday night, an unknown number of people beheaded four people in Murang’a district .
The victims, who included Lawrence Irungu Gatimu, 66, and his wife Beatrice Wanjiru Irungu, 64, were killed in the bloodiest nights since the war pitting the sect against the police came to the fore. Others were David Mwangi and Evans Kimani Magoiri.
Confirming the Tuesday incident, Acting Murang’a North district Police boss Albert Kimathi said the two who were armed with pangas and other crude weapons defied police orders to surrender, prompting the police to open fire on them.
The Murang’a killings coincided with another bloodbath in Mathare and Mlango Kubwa areas in Nairobi in which two police officers on patrol of the area, suspected to be a major hideout for the sect members, were shot from behind by members of the gang believed to be Mungiki and took their two AK 47 rifles snatched by others who had taken positions. As a result, police mounted a major operation in the area in which 25 people were killed by the police on suspicion of being members of the murderous sect. The two officers killed by the sect were identified as Constables John Matinde and the 24-year-old Philip Lengai who had served the force for less than six months.
Two of their colleagues who were also seriously injured during the attack were rushed to the Armed Forces Memorial Hospital where they are receiving treatment.
Confirming the Nairobi incident, Police Spokesman Erick Kiraithe said the men who were gunned down were among suspected Mungiki members who had attempted to stop the police from carrying out the operation after their two colleagues were felled by the sect members.
And following the Monday night killings in Murang’a, Kimathi said security personnel drawn from the General Service Unit (GSU) Administration Police (APs) and the regular police as well as undercover police had been deployed in the area to search and bring the assailants to book.
According to Kimathi, the police positively identified the felled men, Kamau and Kaberia, as Mungiki followers using the intelligence report they had obtained from area residents. He said those arrested in Kahuro and other areas in the district are in custody and are helping the police with investigations.
And in Nairobi, a skinned human head which was recovered from the volatile Mathare area was taken to the City Mortuary without the rest of the body. Sources said that more bodies had been taken to the City Mortuary but it could not be confirmed whether the people had been killed by Mungiki or died from other causes.
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