When an NGO founder together with his colleague were murdered in cold blood recently just a few metres to the president’s residence, a lot of questions were raised and until to date more and complicated questions are popping up and no answer is being close to be found.

Before the evening killings, the government spokesman had said the government was not happy with Oscar Foundation which the late Kamau King’ara led and had even threatened to de-register the firm. This does not imply that the government was involved in the killings but prior comments by its spokesperson who has so far been denounced by the Prime Minister left a lot to be desired.
Both of the slain activists had given evidence to the UN special rapporteur Philip Alston, who criticized Kenya’s police recently for hundreds of extra judicial killings, saying they acted as a law unto themselves.

Mungiki is a proscribed sect which sends shivers down many Kenyan’s spines whenever its talked about and for sure it has proved a hard nut to crack. When the grand coalition was formed, the PM fronted the idea of having a dialogue with the sect but that has never happened.

This sect has totally taken over the country’s transport industry and any public service vehicle that operates on Kenyan roads is required to pay a daily fee to it, this has affected the capital Nairobi mostly though it has spread to other parts of the country.

Kenyans are against extra judicial killings but are also tired of the heinous crimes that the sect is known of. However Alston’s recommendations after studying the said report were not wise either, its after his call for the resignation of the Attorney General as well as the Police Commissioner that the sect woke up from a long time slumber demanding for the same.

Kenyans are just tired of hitting world headlines for the bad reasons, we also expected such a professor (Alston) to deal with a sensitive matter in a deserving way. Mungiki is a dreaded sect that should not have been shown sympathy in such a manner.