The sights and sounds of the Capital will never cease to amaze. And the latest events that unfolded yesterday are nothing short of amazing – and stupefying.
In their hundreds, they came, brandishing their signature flag and wielding posters of their leader, Maina Njenga.
They moved in what could only be termed as a well-orchestrated move, from street to street. From
By God, they even had the audacity to stampede right in front of Vigilance House and Parliament!
And the police were quick to utter yet another feeble explanation; they were not aware of such a move. So Kenyans, we are faced with a glaring situation here; the police cannot and will not contain the Mungiki.
Because, never have I witnessed such a demonstration (more appropriately, a riot) that the police were incapable of quelling in the nick of time. For half an hour, they ran amok in the city streets, causing mayhem and bringing business to a grinding halt. They were even kind enough o leave behing leaflets.
The police acted after half an hour. How convenient! Surely, what was so different or so special about this demonstration, that they couldn’t be contained as fast as possible? Isnt this simply put, the biggest case of irony ever? I mean, when civil society takes to the streets, in peaceful and civilised fashion, to air their grievances, the police are quick to punce upon the demonstrators like lions hunting for game. But let the ragged, ill-mannered thugs take control of the streets and we witness a show never aired before.
Are we going to be held hostage by a bunch of ruffians?
Are we never going to know peace, simpy because a group of rag-tag hoodlums want their leader to be freed? A leader who happens to be at the helm of an illegal militia band?
Maina Njenga has been in jail since 2005, charged with mere possession of an illegal firearm.
Such idiocy! Such unfathomable leniency!
What about being the leader of an outlawed sect? What about being in charge of a group that has allegedly commited all manner of heinous crimes? Or don’t these count?
And while the gang ran about town, shouting into the TV cameras with all the audacity they could muster what were the police doing? What will the police do?
Those faces were captured by TV cameras. I bet any cameraman can easily identify the rioters in a police line-up. But will the police do a thorough investigation and arrest the felons? Or will they just sit back, after throwing a bunch of teargas cannisters, and let this one fly, just as usual?
I’ll bet you ten bucks, this one will find a comfortable position under the carpet once more.
Because the Mungiki Menace is never going to die away. Simply because they have proven to be quicker, meaner and more intelligent than the team charged with ensuring law and order in this nation.
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The unfortunate reality is that the Kenya Police remains the most corrupt, incompetent and politicized PUBLICINSTITUTIONS (Oh yes, Kenyan taxpayers are their bosses) but this is of course an open secret! Their 'performance' in the face of the worst crisis Kenya has ever seen 'our' UTUMUSHI KWA WOTE was to paraphrase a forer teacher of mine; 'patherically pathe' indeed very much inkeeping with 'tradition'! Indeed this is less about Mungiki rather more an indictment of THE KENYA POLICE and its perenial inability to perform nay its perenial ability to fail their employer - wananchi wa Kenya - 'with flying colours'! Now after venting on 'our' karaos it is imperative to point out that 'ours' is a Police Force that HAS NEVER BEEN OURS! Just like we have had successive governments that HAVE NEVER BEEN OURS! We all know just how much 'our' governments have consistently been instruments of opression from Kenyatta right up to Kibaki. That the Kenya Police (a creation & extension of those very same governments) has, since its creation by the colonialists right through the successive regimes, been the primary instrument/institution for oppression of wananchi is common knowlewdge! If the KENYA POLICE FORCE has historically consistently been OPPRESSING WANANCHI WA KENYA then it follows that they DO NOTHING FOR WANANCHI WA KENYA wether Mungiki or any other similar threat to wananchi! It is only through a new socio-political, economic & new constitutional dispensation that puts service to wananchi at the core that we will finally get 'our' police force on its way toward the vision captured by their motto UTUMISHI KWA WOTE! Meanwhile BADO MAPAMBANO!!!
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