Kenya Broadcasting Corp. - July 15, 2007
The government has reiterated that it will not tolerate the idea of minors joining proscribed sects such as Mungiki members.
Central province PC Jasper Rugut said that the provincial security team had received information that students in the province had joined the sect and even participated in the oathing process.
Rugut who was speaking during a prize giving ceremony at Nyeri primary school warned that the security team in the province would soon catch up with those recruiting school going children into the sect.
The PC promised the residents that the government would do everything possible to protect their lives and property.
The remarks by the PC come three weeks after police in the province gunned down some school going children who were among sect members who were taking an oath in a house in Murang'a.
http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=43760
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14 Jul 2007
Boy, 2, beheaded and diced
Brisbane Times - July 12, 2007
NAIROBI - A two-year-old boy was beheaded and chopped up in a Kenyan capital slum today, police said, amid a fierce crackdown on an illegal sect blamed for a string of murders and decapitations.
The boy's mutilated torso was discovered in a maize farm and his head 500 metres away at a river bank in capital's Nairobi's crime-prone Korogocho slums, police commander Paul Ruto said.
The remains had no limbs, the chest was lacerated and the genitals chopped off, raising speculation that the body parts might be used in rites by the politically-linked Mungiki sect.
"The boy has been identified positively by his father who says he went missing two days ago. We have recorded statements from several people and are now searching for the killers," Ruto said.
The remains were discovered hours after police said they had killed 12 people in a crackdown on organised crime gangs in Nairobi, including members of Mungiki.
Once a religious group of dreadlocked youths who embraced traditional rituals, Mungiki has morphed into a ruthless gang blamed for criminal activities including extortion and murder.
Since March, the sect -- which was banned in 2002 -- has been blamed for the murders of at least 43 people, 13 of whom were beheaded, mostly in Nairobi slums and central Kenya.
The group also has alleged historic ties to the Mau Mau independence uprising, and is said to perpetuate customs such as female excision.
The police crackdown against it comes ahead of December general elections.
So far, it has resulted in the deaths of at least 79 Mungiki members and more than 3,000 arrests nationwide.
Police said 11 of the 12 suspects killed were linked to a foiled carjacking and robberies in three Nairobi suburbs. At least three of them were members of the Mungiki sect, they added.
"We have intensified the crackdown on all organised gangs, including Mungiki," said another police commander, Julius Ndegwa.
AFP
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/07/12/1183833635828.html
NAIROBI - A two-year-old boy was beheaded and chopped up in a Kenyan capital slum today, police said, amid a fierce crackdown on an illegal sect blamed for a string of murders and decapitations.
The boy's mutilated torso was discovered in a maize farm and his head 500 metres away at a river bank in capital's Nairobi's crime-prone Korogocho slums, police commander Paul Ruto said.
The remains had no limbs, the chest was lacerated and the genitals chopped off, raising speculation that the body parts might be used in rites by the politically-linked Mungiki sect.
"The boy has been identified positively by his father who says he went missing two days ago. We have recorded statements from several people and are now searching for the killers," Ruto said.
The remains were discovered hours after police said they had killed 12 people in a crackdown on organised crime gangs in Nairobi, including members of Mungiki.
Once a religious group of dreadlocked youths who embraced traditional rituals, Mungiki has morphed into a ruthless gang blamed for criminal activities including extortion and murder.
Since March, the sect -- which was banned in 2002 -- has been blamed for the murders of at least 43 people, 13 of whom were beheaded, mostly in Nairobi slums and central Kenya.
The group also has alleged historic ties to the Mau Mau independence uprising, and is said to perpetuate customs such as female excision.
The police crackdown against it comes ahead of December general elections.
So far, it has resulted in the deaths of at least 79 Mungiki members and more than 3,000 arrests nationwide.
Police said 11 of the 12 suspects killed were linked to a foiled carjacking and robberies in three Nairobi suburbs. At least three of them were members of the Mungiki sect, they added.
"We have intensified the crackdown on all organised gangs, including Mungiki," said another police commander, Julius Ndegwa.
AFP
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/07/12/1183833635828.html
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