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Dialogue with Mungiki sect ruled out
Kenya — The Government will not negotiate with members of the Mungiki sect, Internal Security minister John Michuki reiterated yesterday.
“Nobody should imagine that the Government would seek to dialogue or negotiate with an illegal outfit,” he said.
Human rights groups have been calling on the Government to negotiate with the sect members with a view of ending the extra-judicial killings.
But yesterday, Mr Michuki said that as far as the Government was concerned, Mungiki adherents are criminals bent on instilling fear on citizens to enable them perpetuate their criminal activities with ease. “The Government will not relent on its war against the sect,” he stated.
Mr Michuki further cautioned politicians against politicising the ongoing crackdown on members of the sect. He said that it was not meant to earn anyone political mileage.
He said that residents of Kangema constituency, which he represents in Parliament, have not complained or disapproved of “the way members of the sect were being dealt with by security agents as they had caused mayhem and terror in the area.”
Recently, police killed more than 20 suspected members of the sect who were allegedly found preparing to take an oath at a village in the constituency. Mr Michuki said that the members had intended to behead 50 people as per the 50 pieces of goat skin found at the scene.
“I wish to reassure Kenyans that the current crackdown on members of the sect is on track and soon their criminal activities would be a thing of the past,” he said.
Separately, police arrested seven suspected Mungiki members who were reportedly preparing to conduct an oath in Makuyu area of Murang’a South District.
The group, including five men and two women, was found at a home in Mukangu village where they had slaughtered two goats for the ceremony.
Also recovered at the scene, were snuff and other items used by the illegal sect, according to the district criminal investigations officer M. Mwenda.
He said police acting on a tip-off ambushed the group as they were about to perform the ritual at night
The suspects are being held at the Makuyu police station awaiting prosecution.
In another incident, a 52-year-old man is admitted to Cottage Hospital in Nanyuki Town with bullet wounds following a gang attack.
Police said a two-man gang raided a house the man was visiting at Cottage Estate and demanded money before shooting him in the stomach.
Laikipia deputy police commander Nicholas Musilu said the victim comes from Matanya village in Lamuria division and had come to visit a 45-year-old woman when the incident occurred at 2am. No arrest had been made by yesterday.
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