Sociologists have warned that the hunt for the Mungiki terror gang in the city’s slums might explode into a catastrophe.

The lives of 33 people were cruelly snuffed out in a single night, 27 of them killed by police battling Mungiki suspects in a swoop triggered by the murder of two security officers on patrol in the sprawling Mathare slums in Nairobi.

In Kenya more than 100 police officers, angry at the brutal murder of two of their colleagues, indiscriminately attacked suspected members of the Mungiki gang.

Kenya’s security minister alleges that Mungiki members drank the blood of people they beheaded.

Mungiki, an organized criminal gang that has tried to disguise itself as a religious movement, keeps foreigners from investing in Kenya.

Members of Kenya’s outlawed Mungiki gang beheaded two more people on Saturday, local media said, a day after the president vowed to crack down on those behind a wave of violence in the volatile run-up to elections.

Police have arrested 2,464 suspected followers of an outlawed religious sect whose members are believed to have beheaded several people in recent months, the government spokesman said Thursday.

A Kenyan court has dropped charges against a former leader of the banned Mungiki sect for lack of evidence linking him to the gang.

This renewed wave of violence came barely 12 hours after Internal Security Minister, John Michuki while in Kangema on Saturday, declared total war on the sect’s adherents saying: they will be phased out of the Kenyan Map unless they reverted to the rule of law and order.

Members of a quasi-religious gang of criminal thugs torched three buses in what is believed to be a revenge attack against those who failed to pay protection fees.

The officer was killed on Tuesday morning during a raid at a suspected mungiki hideout after two buses were torched overnight.

Although they know that some of them would be killed for participating in the protests, mobs of matatu crews, armed with all manner of weapons, stormed suspected Mungiki adherents’ homes and set them ablaze.

However, Defense Minister Njenga Karume’s ultimatum to the terror gang on Wednesday was to first renounce the criminal group before engaging the government in searching for peace.

Suspected members of the outlawed Mungiki sect have retaliated and killed a matatu operator following Monday’s chaos which led to the burning of houses belonging to the sect members in Kiambu district.

Matatu tension returned to Kiambu on Monday, after matatu crews set ablaze six houses belonging to suspected members of the outlawed Mungiki sect.

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