Moses Njagih
6 May 2008
Nairobi — A Cabinet minister and an MP have supported calls on the Government to negotiate with Mungiki.
Gender and Children minister, Ms Esther Murugi and Ndaragwa MP, Mr Jeremiah Kioni, said the Government should listen to Mungiki's grievances.
The central Province MPs said it had become impossible for the Government to suppress the sect members by killing them.
"These people called Mungiki are our children and every time we see them hunted and gunned down we feel bad. We equally feel bad when they engage in criminal activities," said Murugi.
The minister said instead of using force against the sect members, the Government should hold dialogue with them.
"We believe there are now more than two million sect members. Is it possible to shoot them all?" asked the minister.
The MP added: "We must look for ways of bringing them back to the right track and this can only be achieved by talking to them to understand their grievances so that we can know how to help them."
Kioni said he had given notice to move a Motion for the setting up of a committee to engage the sect members in dialogue.
"The committee of about 10 or 15 respected people should talk to Mungiki. Nobody will be considered out of mind for talking with the sect members," said Kioni.
He said the Government had a duty to talk to the sect leaders and prevent mayhem.
Last week, a number of central Kenya leaders, led by former Defence minister, Mr Njenga Karume, and former Mathioya MP, Mr Joseph Kamotho, called on the Government to negotiate with the sect leader.
The Mungiki leader, Maina Njenga, is currently serving a five-year jail term.
However, the police have ruled out the possibility of holding talks with the sect members.
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This mungiki thing is a dangerous group of people who are selfish lot who blames everybody but themselves. When they say their is unemployment in central province does is it mean there is jobs in other places? When they extort money from other hand working kenyans what is the difference between them and common criminals. What justification do they have when they sell government resources ( water electricity roads etc). These days it is hard to shift from one estate to another without paying these gangs. These people should work hard like any other kenyan and they deserve no special treatment.
The Kenya government kills the less violent Sabaot - kids, women and men. And take their lands (for the benefit of, and use by, the GEMA)
It should not be forgotten that Mungiki is a terrorist group that has raped, tortured and slaughtered thousands of Kenyans. None of their violent, terrorist members is yet rendered to Guantanamo bay - even though Kenyans have thus met their fate for merely being Muslim.
Indeed, their activities during the past six months is yet to be investigated and the culprits and their supporters jailed or executed. 1) Any individual calling for talks that would be seen to legitimize a bunch of cut-throats MUST be tried and if found to support them in any manner - financial or moral - (against the interests and security of Kenyans) - executed as an accomplice.
2) The purpose of any contacts between the government or its security forces and the outlawed thugs MUST be strictly for identification, apprehension, prosecution and incarceration/execution.
"...there are now more than two million sect members. Is it possible to shoot them all?" YES. Normally taking out hundreds of their leaders and launching a long-term psychological operations does it. As in the case of their predecessor, the MAU MAU (although in that case, the rehabilitation and re-education of the terrorists and their GEMA supporters stopped as of 1963 when the faithless GEMA chief Johnstone Kamau, also known as Jomo Kenyatta, honoured, rewarded (with lands grabbed from other Kenyans) and feted the violent, GEMA-supremacist tribalists within it.)