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Mungiki Targets Pupils – Teachers
Many primary and secondary school students have joined the outlawed Mungiki sect, headteachers in Murang’a North and South districts said yesterday.
Some headteachers told a meeting chaired by Central provincial commissioner Japhter Rugut that they had received death threats from the sect members.
One said the recruitment of the pupils and students had been going on for a long time.
Last year, he said, he discovered that three Standard Six pupils, among them a girl, were members of the sect. He found them sniffing tobacco in the school but they also confessed to being members of the sect.
A secondary school teacher said he had been living in fear since last year when he discovered that some criminal activities linked to the sect could have been taking place at his school.
“I had intended to inspect the school at night when I noticed a group of armed young men leaving a classroom,” he said.
Kenya National Union of Teachers Murang’a North executive secretary Samson Kaguma said most teachers had moved out of their staff quarters to live in towns fearing for their safety.
Day secondary schools were said to be the most affected. Many boys from such schools were recruited into the sect during the December holidays after circumcision.
The headteachers proposed that circumcision be done at a centralised place for the boys to be trained on moral values.
The priest in charge of the education department at the Murang’a Catholic Dioceses, Fr Joseph Maina, said boy students were no longer taking Christian Religious Education (CRE).
Compulsory
Teachers proposed that CRE be made compulsory.
During the meeting, it was resolved that a three-week prayer session be held across the district.
Mr Rugut said: “Politicians have let us down. All they do is to condemn security personnel conducting the crackdown. They should consider the pains the victims undergo.”
The provincial director of education, Mr Kenneth Misoi, asked the Government to seek dialogue with the sect.
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