In partnership with
Kipchumba Some probed the fallout from the Kenyan government cracked down on the outlawed Mungiki sect in May 2007. Rights groups had accused the police of violating basic human rights in the process. They said police arbitrarily arrested Kikuyu youth and accused them of being Mungiki members. The government denied the claims. But two years after anti-Mungiki operations were supposed to have ceased, the killing and disappearance of suspected members of the secretive sect continue. As a result, Kenya’s police commissioner formed a special team to investigate. Eleven officers with the anti-Mungiki squad have since been arrested and charged with kidnapping, extortion and murder. A parliamentary committee internal security is also conducting its own inquiry.