Mungiki among Terror Groups Targeting School Children

Terror gangs have returned and parents need to be wary as schools are closed for the two months two weeks break. The gangs are recruiting both children and the youth.

Terror groups that have previously caused havoc and were lastly handed a bitter blow by the late Honorable John Michuki seem to be slowly coming back to life.

In Central Kenya, the outlawed Mungiki sect is giving authorities sleepless nights with 90 people connected to the gang in police custody. Pupils are feared to be targeted candidates as the gang that seems to take a break before resurfacing under new names sends shivers among the residents. Mungiki’s base is understood to be in Makongeni in Thika and Kiandutu slums.

In Kayole, security officers are faced with the challenge of wiping out the Kayole-based criminal gang, Gaza. Gaza consists of teenagers, both girls, and boys, who ran away from their homes to join the gangs. The fight against Gaza has sadly seen a number of young promising lives lost to the bullet. Police officers have not been spared as deaths of their colleagues seem to have turned the war into a personal one, understandably. Videos of the blunt shooting of suspects linked to the sect continue to make their way into social media platforms.

In Western Kenya’s Butere, Forty brothers continue to rain terror in the community leaving a trail of death, pain, and bitterness. In the last two months, the gang has butchered at least 12 people and seriously injured more than 40 in the last two months. The Forty Brothers Gang is identified with its gruesome killings where victims are left with eyes, tongues, genitals and ripped out. The gang is said to consist members between 15 and 25 years of age.

Human Right organizations have on numerous occasions come out guns blazing accusing the police of extrajudicial killings while the police seem to be set against a hard place and a rock as for them, it is ‘I kill you or kill me’ case.

Gang members are easily identified by their dress code. A pair of skinny jeans commonly at ankle length, half-buttoned beach shirt, plastic open or sports shoes and a cap is common with the Gaza gang. A number of sect members have also been synonymous with scout shirts and military attire.