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Alai · May 21, 2007

Kenya ranked top exporting country within trading block

Publication Date: 5/21/2007

Kenya tops the list of highest exporting countries in the 19-member Comesa trading bloc.

Trade and Industry minister Dr Mukhisa Kituyi with Dr David Nalo(left), PS, Trade and Industry, during the on-going Comesa Summit at KICC Nairobi, yesterday. Photo/WILLIAM OERI
According to the latest annual report produced by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa secretariat, the country raked in Sh60.7 billion in 2005, emerging as the top beneficiary in the regional market.

Kenya also re-exported in the vast market, goods worth Sh32.5 billion and imported products valued at Sh12.7 billion.

Egypt came in second, exporting goods worth Sh30.6 billion and importing from other Comesa member states goods valued at Sh12.6 billion. Zambia ranked third, selling goods worth Sh18 billion and re-exporting products valued at Sh602 million. It however, bought an equally higher amount worth Sh17.2 billion.

Economic crisis

Zimbabwe, the southern African country currently facing a major economic crisis, came fourth exporting goods worth Sh11.7 billion and re-exporting Sh693 million. It also imported semi and finished products from other member states valued at Sh4.3 billion.

The report shows that the landlocked country of Uganda leads in the category of countries with the highest imports, buying from other members states products worth Sh39.5billion, and is closely followed by Sudan, which imports goods worth Sh32.7 billion.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, emerging from years of turmoil, comes in third importing products worth Sh25.5 billion, Zambia Sh17.2 billion, followed by Ethiopia, which imported goods valued at Sh13.4 billion.

The report says the economic performance of the Comesa region has been good, though still below the desired target for the Millennium Development Goals.

At the end of 2005, the Gross Domestic Product growth for the region was estimated at only five per cent, but more recent estimates put the growth rate at 5.8 per cent, it adds.

Last years growth, the document says was buoyed by the high prices of petroleum and metal products.

In the 2005/06 financial period, the oil exporting economies witnessed the highest growth, with Sudans economy growing at 13.4 per cent in 2005, before settling at 12 per cent last year.

Non-oil economies exporting mineral and metal commodities also witnessed strong growth.

According to the report, agriculture remains the major driver of the trading bloc, accounting for the lion share of the Gross Domestic Product and the leading source of foreign exchange.

The agricultural sector remains the most important sector in the Comesa region and the one with the highest potential for generating export growth, the document added.

The report adds that the agricultural sector must grow rapidly to address rural poverty, adding that the minimum agricultural sector growth rate required in the region to halve hunger and poverty rates by 2015 is an annual growth of six per cent.

Member countries, the document adds, must allocate at least 10 per cent of their national budget to agricultural development. To address intermittent food shortages, Comesa member countries are planning to adopt a maize without borders policy, to ensure that the grain moves from surplus to deficit areas, without impediments by policy regulations.

The report adds that formal grain trade across the region, in 2005, reduced due to severe drought conditions in a number of countries.

However total grain trade was valued at $19 million compared to $8 million during the 2001 baseline period, it adds.

Meanwhile, Comesa has signed a grant agreement with the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), to improve air traffic monitoring and control in the region. The grant will help provide technical assistance in establishing regional air traffic management systems for upper and lower airspace.

Abdul-wakil Saiboko · May 21, 2007

Waswahili wanasema "haraka haraka haina baraka"

Kimsingi bado sisi Watanzania bado tuna matatizo mengi yakiwemo yale ya Muungano n.k

Suala la elimu ya juu limekua kitendawili, na hii inamaanisha kwamba miaka ijayo wasomi nchini watapungua.

Wakati huo huo Kenya wanaongeza wataalamu wengi na wanaweka misingi nafuu ya kumwezesha kila mmoja kupata elimu.

Je sisi tunajiandaa vipi kukabiliana na changamotio hiyo?

Au tunataka tuungane ili Wakenya waje kwetu wakajizolee ajira.

Common Market Wakati hatuna viwanda vya kutosa, tunataka tuwaandalie Wakenya soko la bidhaa wakati hatuna cha kuwauzia?

Je nani kakubali kuundwa kwa shirikisho tangu mchakato uanze wa kutaka maoni ya wananchi? mimi najua wengi wamekataa, lakini mipango yote imeshaandaliwa kuelekea shirikisho. Je hii ni nini?

Suala la kuwaongeza Rwanda na Burundi kwenye Jumuia ifikapo mwenzi Julai nalo tunalichukuliaje?

Sanda Matuta · May 21, 2007

alai said:
Jumuiya ina manufaa mengi kwa Watanzania kushinda chenye Wakenya watapata humu. Bisha nikupe points.

Haya bwana Kenyatta,
Lete points zako na wewe tuone,unalopoka tu kwa kulinda maslai yenu binafsi.

Maxence Melo · May 21, 2007

alai said:
Jamani mimi siungi mkono uharakishaji wa muungano wa Afrika Mashariki. Uharakishaji ulianzishwa na Moi, Mkapa na Museveni. Museveni anauendeleza hoja hii. Tena nasema kwamba kila saa watanzania wanaongelea Africa Mashariki, wanasema tu juu ya Wakenya. Uoga huu unatokana na hali ya uchumi ya Kenya ambayo ni bora kuliko nchi zote za africa mashariki. Elimu ya kenya ni bora kuliko nchi hizi zote. Ndio maana unapata kampuni nyingi nzuri kwenye eneo hili zinaendeshwa na wakenya.

Alai: Here we go! Lovely one... See the bold words. You sounded ryt man! I am with you on those words. But you spoiled on the red marked ones.

Hali ya uchumi ya Kenya si sawa na ya China ama India. Wakenya wamechoka tu na hilo halitutii wasiwasi. Wasiwasi wetu ni usanii wa wakenya. That's it! Yes; katika docs Kenya (kama taifa) iko juu compared to Tanzania and Uganda. Tatizo ni je wakenya wananufaika na rekodi hizo? Umesikiliza vilio vya wakenya? Sisi tunachokipinga haswa ni UHARAKISHWAJI unaofanywa. We do not want to blame ourselves l8r. NO! Halafu ujue watanzania wanachoangalia sana sio wakenya wana elimu sana ama wana uchumi mkubwa (sio raia bali taifa) lakini watanzania wanachokijua na wana uhakika nacho ni kuwa wakenya ardhi iliuzwa na serikali yao na ndio maana wanasifiwa na mabwanyenye (wazungu) na hivyo wana hamu sana kuona wanapata uhuru wa kuweza kuingia Tz ama Ug kuishi kirahisi na kufanya biashara ama kufanya kazi. Elimu ya Kenya sio bora kuliko zote... You were wrong on that buddie. Elimu kiwango chake hakipimwi kwa kuangalia ni wangapi wamesoma Sociology au Linguists etc. Ni kitu gani cha kitaalamu haswa kimegunduliwa na wakenya na kikaonekana World Wide kuwa wasomi wa Kenya wamegundua na kika-hit? Frankly speaking bro; tuwe wakweli na tuache longolongo za kuzipa serikali zetu 'sifa za kijinga' na kuwafanya wabweteke.

Elimu in East Africa inatakiwa kuboreshwa na tuko nyuma bado PERIOD. Acha kuwavimbisha vichwa hawa watu bwana; tunatakiwa kuangalia pande zote za shilingi na sio kuangalia kusifia issues ambazo ni kujidanganya. Watanzania tuko straight; tunakiri elimu iko duni bado na hatumaanishi vyuo vyetu ama shule zetu hazitoi elimu nzuri bali ni idadi ya wasomi ni ndogo kulinganisha na idadi ya watanzania wote. For your information: Kila unayeona hapa anachangia ana atleast Diploma hivyo anajua anachokifanya na ana uhakika na anachoongea. Let's put aside our differences and tell our leaders the truth: HATUTAKI HARAKA ZISIZO NA KICHWA WALA MIGUU ati ni FEDERATION YA KUTUFAIDISHA. TUNATAKIWA KUHAKIKISHA TUNAJUA BENEFITS ZA KILA RAIA WA JUMUIA HUSIKA NA WATWAMBIE HASARA ZA FEDERATION YENYEWE. Alai; ogopa mtu anasifia tu kitu na hakwambia side effect yake. HAKUTAKII MEMA BRO!

Watanzania wangekuwa wazuri na kuendelea kushinda kila nchi kwenye shirikisho lakini viongozi wame tu-let down. Sasa Kikwete anadanganywa na washauri juu ya elimu. Ni nchi gani hapa duniani inategemea kuendelea kwa kupunguza msaada kwa vyuo na wasomi chuo kikuu. Tunapunguza loan kwa wanafunzi wa chuo kikuu wakati tunanunua silahaa za zamani Urusi na China. Tunatunmia hela nyngi kununua silaha na vifaa ambavyo havitatusaidia wakati wanafunzi wetu wanakosa elimu.

Hatukatai; ni kweli kuwa viongozi ndio wanatuangusha haswa kwa kuwadharau wasomi. Je; ni Tz pekee? Kenya mko swafiiiii au sio? Kibaki ni kidume swafiiii au vipi? Wasomi in Kenya wanapewa hela nyingi sana za loan na wameridhika sio? Una hakika nikiongea na mwanafunzi wa UoNBI atakubali kuwa anapewa 100% ya loan? Kenya ndo mwanunua silaha Russia + China mzee; sisi vyetu twajua tutoako. Na silaha ni muhimu sana kwa usalama wa taifa. Hapo iachie serikali ifanye kazi yake mkuu. Lakini ni ukweli usiopingika kuwa budgets za serikali ZOTE lazima ziangalia suala zima la elimu kuanzia Msingi hadi Elimu ya Juu.

Wakenya ni kama Wandugu kwa Watanzania. Mpaka sasa hivi kuna Watanzania 5000 waliokimbia machafuko za kisiasa Zanzibar. Au Zanzibar sio Tanzania?

Say what? Watanzania ni wepesi kusamehe! Wakenya kibao na ni zaidi ya 1,000,000 waliojazana Arusha na Dar tu. Mikoa mingine sigusii kabisa. Hawa nao tuwaite wakimbizi? Au tuwaiteje??? Zanzibar ni sehemu ya Muungano wetu na ndio maana husikii Tanganyika bali Tanzania. Machafuko ya Kisiasa Zanzibar ni issue ya kawaida na ILIISHA zamani sana sema wao huenda wamepata deal zao huko Kenya na wanapenda kuendelea kuishi huko. 5,000 people ni kidogo sana kulinganisha na wakenya walio Tz tena bila kuulizwa passport. Tukisema tuwarudishe kwa lazima itakuwa balaa... Wengi sana bro!

Tupinge hoja ya uharakishaji lakini tusilenge pasipofaa..... Tutafute njia za kuziba shimo mbali mbali yanayoweza kufanya exploitation na inchi moja au nyingine ifanyike kwenye jumuiya.

Yani katika ongea yako hapa umeongea la msingi sana kaka. Take 5! Na nchi ya kuangalia sana kwa jicho la umakini ni KENYA! Unajua reason...

Rais wa kumwangalia kwa umakini mkubwa ni Mu7 na sababu waijua. YES; kiri ukweli tuendelee na issues.

Jamani tulenge hoja na tusaidie nchi yetu tunayoipenda.

Kenya au East Africa ama wamaanisha Tanzania tuipendayo?

Tanzanians wana experience na masuala ya kuungana hivyo masuala haya hawafanyi kwa kubahatisha. Ni bora mara 100 uulize tukwambie mabalaa ya miungano hii. Haswa wanapokuwepo manyang'au wanaowafanya raia waumie kwa kuendekeza ufisadi katika serikali.

Hoja hujibiwa na hoja Alai; I will be back

Ole · May 21, 2007

Worm

Darasa zuri sana hilo mimi nakuachia huyu Alai ule nae sahani moja mpaka kieleweke.

MkamaP · May 22, 2007

This is the real Kenya------

NEWS

Six beheaded

Story by NATION Team
Publication Date: 2007/05/22

Six people have been beheaded in yet another horror attack by killers suspected to be Mungiki.

The bizarre killings took place in Murang'a and Kiambu districts and are only the latest in a string of murders which security forces appear powerless to stop.

Three
Mr Julius Maina: A mason in Nairobi had gone home to pay school fees for his son. His body was dumped by the road. Mr Njeru Mwendwa: Fifty-year-old labourer who spent his life moving from one farm to another as a herdsman.
e of the killings were carried out on Sunday night at Kianjogu Village in Kahuro Division, Murang'a North District, while one was at Kiambaa township, near Banana Hill.

Later reports indicated that three legs belonging to different people were found in Kiambu, suggesting that there were at least three victims of the killings. However, bodies of two of the Kiambaa victims were yet to be found by yesterday.

But according to the police, only four people had been killed.

The beheadings came three days after a body was found near Kiambu Town with the head cut off.

The early morning killings in Murang'a threw Kianjogu Village into panic and mourning after residents woke up to find three heads of their neighbours chopped off. The victims were identified as Mr Njeru Mwenda, 50, Mr Daniel Irungu, 70, and Mr Julius Ndirangu, 50.

"I had gone out to answer a call of nature at around 3am when I switched on my torch and I saw the head of a human being placed on the roof of my chicken pen," said Mr Robert Mwangi Kiunjuri, a local teacher. He later found out that it was Mr Mwenda's head.

Mr Kiunjuri alerted the police at nearby Kahuro Police Station and then informed other villagers who organised a search for the labourer's body. "We discovered the body outside the office of the area assistant chief," Mr Kiunjuri said. The office is near the house where Mr Mwenda used to live.

Soon after, the teacher said, they heard screams from a nearby ridge, about a kilometre away from the office of the assistant chief. Another head had been found on top of a telephone post. "We all rushed there and saw the head of Irungu, but we could not trace the body," Mr Kiunjuri said.

They later found two bodies hidden on the roadside. "There was a lot of blood splashed all over the place, which led us to where the two bodies were," he said. A few metres from the scene, the villagers and police heard dogs fighting over something. On checking, they found that it was Mr Ndirangu's head, which had been dumped near a cow shed in a neighbouring home.

Security officers in Kiambaa, Kiambu were yesterday shocked to find the head of a former matatu conductor outside the local chief's office. And the torso, which had the legs cut off and the private parts severed, was found dumped on the roadside, about a kilometre away, near the Karuri open air market.

The killers had thrown the legs in a ditch at the township, about 500 metres from where the head was. Karuri Police Station is adjacent to the Karuri chief's compound and the area District Officer's office near where the head was found.

The victim, Mr Solomon Karinge Njenga, 29, had been abducted the previous night by a gang believed to be members of the Mungiki sect. He was killed just three days after the head of Mr Dominic Njinu, a matatu conductor, was found displayed at the main bus stop in Kiambu Town.

Police and area residents are worried by the killings, which resemble ritual murders. Mr Njenga was last seen alive by his family at 7pm on Sunday when he left his home in Njiku Village after milking a cow. He went to the shopping centre, about five kilometres away, where he was spotted speaking to a matatu conductor.

Detectives have not established what happened to Mr Njenga after he left the shopping centre. Mr Njenga was a matatu conductor on the Limuru-Banana-Nairobi route until November last year, when he quit and took up dairy farming at his father's farm.

His father, Mr John Karanja said: "We were anxious in the morning after we discovered he had not returned home." Preliminary investigations showed the victim was waylaid on his way home. Area residents believe the executions are being carried by Mungiki gangs that have been evicted from bus stops where they levied illegal fees from conductors and drivers.

They believe the attacks are meant to cow the operators into submission so that the extortion gangs can resume control of the routes. The Kiambu district commissioner held a crisis meeting with local leaders at the DO's office yesterday. Central province CID boss Sebastian Ndaru, Kiambu police chief Antony Kamitu and all chiefs from the area attended the meeting.

Kiambaa MP Njenga Karume, who is also the Defence minister, appealed for calm. "Don't take law in your own hands. Anybody with information should report to the police," he said. After two conductors were slashed to death in the area last month, residents raided some homesteads where suspected Mungiki members lived and set nine houses on fire.

According to villagers, the three people killed in Murang'a were accosted by their killers while returning home after a drink at the local trading centre.

Mr Mwenda, who villagers said was from Chuka in Meru District, was hacked to death a few metres from his rented house. "I was with Irungu and Ndirangu after a meeting and when I left for home, the two went to the shopping centre," Irungu's elder brother, Mr Julius Gachanja, said.

According to him, unknown people had gone to Mr Irungu's house at 9pm and started demolishing the mud walls, but soon realised he was not in and went away. The man had been living alone because his wife and only son had moved to Nakuru where he owns a farm.

And Mr Ndirangu, who works as a mason in Nairobi, had traveled to his rural home to pay school fees for one of his sons, a Form Two student at a local secondary school. Both Mr Irungu and Mr Ndirangu were killed at on spot where a local leader of the outlawed Mungiki sect, Stephen Mwangi Kiunjuri, was killed by police in April last year.

Yesterday, villagers said that after the suspect was killed, sect members disappeared and some moved to Nairobi. However, some had started going back and are believed to be behind the killings. Late in the evening, the police said they were treating the attacks as murder cases. A Press statement signed by Mr Kiraithe, for the Police Commissioner, said the police had launched "intensive investigations to establish the motive and identify the criminals involved".

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Dua · May 22, 2007

Tuesday, 11 February, 2003, 02:19 GMT
Profile: Kenya's secretive Mungiki sect

The Mungiki are a growing force in Kenya

By Gray Phombeah
BBC News Online, Nairobi

They pray as they face Mount Kenya, which they believe to be the home of their God, known as Ngai. And their name means "a united people". But Kenya's Mungiki followers are no ordinary believers. Their holy communion is tobacco-sniffing, their hairstyle that of the Mau Mau dreadlocks and the origin of the sect is still shrouded in mystery.

Since the late 1990s, the sect has left behind a trail of blood in its rejection of the trappings of Western culture.

Deaths

Last week, the sect was back in the news following two days of clashes with police which left at least two policemen dead in Nairobi and 70 of its members in police custody. The clashes were sparked by a dispute over the control of the private minibuses business in some parts of Nairobi, two weeks after 30 people were killed in similar clashes in the Rift Valley province.
Police say more than 50 people died last year in clashes involving the sect and owners of private minibuses, known as Matatu, in Nairobi alone.

"Mungiki is a politically motivated wing of a religious organisation," says Ken Ouko, a lecturer of sociology at the University of Nairobi. "The religious bit is just a camouflage. It's more like an army unit. During the old system, they seemed to be complimentary to the system. In the new government, they seem to be antagonistic."

Secrecy

Inspired by the bloody Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s against the British colonial rule, thousands of young Kenyans - mostly drawn from Kenya's largest tribe, the Kikuyu - flocked to the sect whose doctrines are based on traditional practices. One theory has it that Mungiki was formed in 1988 with the aim of toppling the government of former President Daniel arap Moi. The sect was, at one time, associated with Mwakenya, an underground movement formed in 1979 to challenge the former Kanu regime.
Other reports say Mungiki was founded in 1987 by some young students in central Kenya to reclaim political power and wealth which its members claim was stolen from the Kikuyu.

Its leadership claims to have two million members around the country and to have infiltrated government offices, factories, schools and the armed forces - members who would not necessarily sport dreadlocks but support and finance the sect behind the scenes. What is known is that the sect operate in secrecy, taking unusual oaths and saying strange prayers in forests and rivers in central Kenya. Kikuyu oral literature portray gory images of their ritual scenes: Grown-up men with loincloths wrapped around them, standing bare foot in rivers, engaging in snuff sessions and bathing in blood mixed with urine and goat tripe. One of its leaders, Maian Njenga, claims he had a vision from God (Ngai) commanding him to unite the Kikuyu and fight foreign ideologies. He is now in hiding, together with his co-leader Ndura Waruinge.

Actions

After last month's Mungiki attack in Nakuru, Interior Security Minister Chris Murungaru ordered a police crackdown on the sect. He accused the former ruling party Kanu of having nurtured and protected the sect during its reign.
But Kanu, now in the opposition, deny the allegations, saying leaders of the sect claim that some senior officials of the new government are members of the sect. Away from the running battle with the police, the Mungiki members have also been involved in other anti-social acts:

Stripping women wearing miniskirts and trousers in public

Forcibly imposing female circumcision

Raiding police stations to free their own members who were under police custody.

And the sect has been assuming a new modern face, using AK-47 assault rifles instead of clubs, machete and swords. Sociologist Ken Ouko says the Mungiki sect seem to have managed to address a social and spiritual hunger among the young slum dwellers which the church and the state have failed to feed: "I would say this is a social reaction to either poverty or just being disgruntled.

"The best approach is talk to Mungiki. If we are going to hunt them down, the problem is going to be worse. "We have to take a diplomatic approach."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2745421.stm

Hao ndio Mungiki - Killers

MkamaP · May 23, 2007

Schools still closed over bandit raids

Story by By NATION Correspondent
Publication Date: 2007/05/23

Eight primary schools remained closed for the third day running following a violent confrontation between security personnel and raiders believed to have come from Isiolo and Marsabit districts that left 31 people dead.

Laikipia East and West districts Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) executive secretary Mr Njuguna Kamanja said the schools were closed after residents fled from Luonyiek, Survey and Magadi villages following the cattle raids in which hundreds of animals were stolen last weekend.

Fled the area

Those closed are Magadi, Survey, Lonyek, Miharati, Kahuho, Mutonyi, Laikipia Ranching and Mutarakwa primary schools.

Mr Kamanja said that teachers had also fled from the area awaiting the restoration of security.

This is the second year running in which the 2,500 school-going children have been denied their constitutional right to education due to insecurity. Teachers in this area should not be asked questions as to why their schools never performed well in the examinations, he said.

The trade unionist called on the Government to consider establishing army training camps along the bandit-prone zones in the region.

Hawa ni bandits au ni vita ,mpaka shule zinafungwa,na mbaya zaidi wao wamepania kuua na si kuchukua mali
Tukiwa ambia wakenya tunawaogopa, wao wanafikiri ati wana elimu na ni matajiri
"Asiyejua maana usimwambie maana"

Alai · May 23, 2007

Nilisema kwamba jumuiya hii ina manufaa mengi kwa Tanzania. Tanzania ndio inashida ya usafiri mpaka wasafiri wengi wa kuenda sehemu nyingi tanzania lazima wapitie Kenya. Nairobi's JKIA ni hub airport wakati Mwalimu Julius Nyerere au KIA sio hub airport na haziwezi kuhimili ndege kubwa. Ndio wasafiri wengi kutoka ulaya au marekani au bara asia lazima wapitie Kenya.

Sio maslahi ya Wakenya natetea hapa ila nasema kwamba tusiwe tunaenda na euphoria. Tuangalie points za kufaa. Mimi sipendi jumuiya iharakishwe lakini ni vizuri tuwe kwenye jumuiya ya Africa Mashariki. Kuna watanzania wangapi wanafanya biashara ndogondogo gikomba? Hebu niambie ukilinganisha na wakenya wanaofanya biashara ndogondogo Manzese. Watanzania wenye wako Gikomba ni wengi kuliko waKenya waliopo Manzese.

Ni vizuri tuhalalishe wahamia haramu ambao tayari wako kwenye nchi hizi. Kutofautisha Mkenya na mtanzania inakuwa ngumu sana. Kuna wakenya waliohamia huku bongo ambao tayari ni hata mawaziri. Na tena wengine nawajua wanafanya hata usalama wataifa. Unadhani itakuwaje tukiendelea kujifanya kwamba tunaweza kusuluhisha shida hii kwa kukataliana? kuna wabongo wengi wanamuziki ambao wanajiita wakenya sasa. Na vile vile nawajuwa wakenya wengi ambao ni ma-producer na wanamuziki ambao sasa ni wabongo. Jamaa yao bado wako kwenye nchi waliotokea lakini wamechukuwa urahia wa nchi nyingine. Unategemea nini nchi kama hizi zikitengana?

Sio kitu rahisi. Mgogoro ukitokea itakuwa ngumu kusuluhisha. Kuna wachagga wakenya na wachagga watanzania, wamasai wakenya na wamaasai watanzania, wajaluo wakenya na wajaluo watanzania. Wote wana ndugu kila pande ya border. Na wanafanya hata kwenye jeshi la taifa.

Tanzania haizalishi mengi vile wakenya wanazalisha. Tanzania haina viwanda. Tanznaia ni uchumi ya uuzaji sio uzalishaji. Ukizuuia mazao utauza nini humu ndugu zangu? Mbona tuende na matakwa mabaya za watu wachache? Wakenya wamekuwa wakiishi na watanzania na tena ndio marafiki wakweli wa tanzania. Infact Tanzania ishwahi kwenda vita na Uganda lakini sio Kenya.

Wenye hoja za nguvu ni waganda. Wakenya hawajakuwa na tabia ya kuleta hoja za nguvu kwa wageni. Wanajiletea wenyewe lakini wakiona mgeni wananyamaza na kuonyesha upendo. Lakini waganda wamevamila kila jirani yao. Unajuwa kwamba Uganda washawahi Kupigana na Sudan, Congo, Rwanda, tanzania? Kenya imewahi kupigana na nani? Hatuna hiyo tabia. Sisi ni ubishi mumohumo lakini mgeni akiingia mlangoni tunakuwa kimya.

Huo ndio diplomasia. Kampuni mengi dar zinaongozwa na Wakenya lakini hatujakuwa na vurugu na kampuni hizi zinafanya vizuri sana. Kwetu tuna viongozi wabaya na hicho tu ndio tunapigia kelele. Hatujaenda kwenye nchi za wengine tukaleta ubabe. Sisi sio wasomali. Kilasiku wanaharibu hiki na kile.

Jammani msiwafuate viongozi wabaya. Angalia jirani yako huyo mkenya na utaona hana vurugu vile wengine wanavyo.

Mkenya · May 23, 2007

alai said:
Nilisema kwamba jumuiya hii ina manufaa mengi kwa Tanzania. Tanzania ndio inashida ya usafiri mpaka wasafiri wengi wa kuenda sehemu nyingi tanzania lazima wapitie Kenya. Nairobi's JKIA ni hub airport wakati Mwalimu Julius Nyerere au KIA sio hub airport na haziwezi kuhimili ndege kubwa. Ndio wasafiri wengi kutoka ulaya au marekani au bara asia lazima wapitie Kenya.

Sio maslahi ya Wakenya natetea hapa ila nasema kwamba tusiwe tunaenda na euphoria. Tuangalie points za kufaa. Mimi sipendi jumuiya iharakishwe lakini ni vizuri tuwe kwenye jumuiya ya Africa Mashariki. Kuna watanzania wangapi wanafanya biashara ndogondogo gikomba? Hebu niambie ukilinganisha na wakenya wanaofanya biashara ndogondogo Manzese. Watanzania wenye wako Gikomba ni wengi kuliko waKenya waliopo Manzese.

Ni vizuri tuhalalishe wahamia haramu ambao tayari wako kwenye nchi hizi. Kutofautisha Mkenya na mtanzania inakuwa ngumu sana. Kuna wakenya waliohamia huku bongo ambao tayari ni hata mawaziri. Na tena wengine nawajua wanafanya hata usalama wataifa. Unadhani itakuwaje tukiendelea kujifanya kwamba tunaweza kusuluhisha shida hii kwa kukataliana? kuna wabongo wengi wanamuziki ambao wanajiita wakenya sasa. Na vile vile nawajuwa wakenya wengi ambao ni ma-producer na wanamuziki ambao sasa ni wabongo. Jamaa yao bado wako kwenye nchi waliotokea lakini wamechukuwa urahia wa nchi nyingine. Unategemea nini nchi kama hizi zikitengana?

Sio kitu rahisi. Mgogoro ukitokea itakuwa ngumu kusuluhisha. Kuna wachagga wakenya na wachagga watanzania, wamasai wakenya na wamaasai watanzania, wajaluo wakenya na wajaluo watanzania. Wote wana ndugu kila pande ya border. Na wanafanya hata kwenye jeshi la taifa.

Tanzania haizalishi mengi vile wakenya wanazalisha. Tanzania haina viwanda. Tanznaia ni uchumi ya uuzaji sio uzalishaji. Ukizuuia mazao utauza nini humu ndugu zangu? Mbona tuende na matakwa mabaya za watu wachache? Wakenya wamekuwa wakiishi na watanzania na tena ndio marafiki wakweli wa tanzania. Infact Tanzania ishwahi kwenda vita na Uganda lakini sio Kenya.

Wenye hoja za nguvu ni waganda. Wakenya hawajakuwa na tabia ya kuleta hoja za nguvu kwa wageni. Wanajiletea wenyewe lakini wakiona mgeni wananyamaza na kuonyesha upendo. Lakini waganda wamevamila kila jirani yao. Unajuwa kwamba Uganda washawahi Kupigana na Sudan, Congo, Rwanda, tanzania? Kenya imewahi kupigana na nani? Hatuna hiyo tabia. Sisi ni ubishi mumohumo lakini mgeni akiingia mlangoni tunakuwa kimya.

Huo ndio diplomasia. Kampuni mengi dar zinaongozwa na Wakenya lakini hatujakuwa na vurugu na kampuni hizi zinafanya vizuri sana. Kwetu tuna viongozi wabaya na hicho tu ndio tunapigia kelele. Hatujaenda kwenye nchi za wengine tukaleta ubabe. Sisi sio wasomali. Kilasiku wanaharibu hiki na kile.

Jammani msiwafuate viongozi wabaya. Angalia jirani yako huyo mkenya na utaona hana vurugu vile wengine wanavyo.

Well Said Alai, could'nt have been any better expanation to our brothers in the south.

MkamaP · May 23, 2007

Alai
yote wewe unayongea ni siasa wala hapo hakuna hoja ya kufanya shirikisho
Tatizo linalowapitisha watz kenya au uganda sio tatizo la usifiri ila tatizo ni
la ki geografia
angalia gambia ilivyozungukwa na senegal na hawa hawajaota eti kuungana kwa sababu senegal inaizunguka gambia.
Kuhusu wakenya waliochukua uraia tz hao si wakenya tena ni wtz na vivyo ilivyo kwa wtz waliochukua kenya.
Nafikiri wakenya waliochukua uraia marekani ni wengi mno kupita wakenya waliochukua uraia tz Je?hadi kuna wakenya wengine wanagombea urais marekani
Je kwa mtaji huo mnaweza leta hoja ya kuungana na marekani kwa sababu kuna wakenya wengi marekani tena ma proffesional na wengine hadi wana wania urais???
Tupe sababu za msingi na si siasa

Maxence Melo · May 24, 2007

alai said:
Nilisema kwamba jumuiya hii ina manufaa mengi kwa Tanzania. Tanzania ndio inashida ya usafiri mpaka wasafiri wengi wa kuenda sehemu nyingi tanzania lazima wapitie Kenya. Nairobi's JKIA ni hub airport wakati Mwalimu Julius Nyerere au KIA sio hub airport na haziwezi kuhimili ndege kubwa. Ndio wasafiri wengi kutoka ulaya au marekani au bara asia lazima wapitie Kenya.

Alai, mimi na wewe tutakula sahani moja. Mimi sio Mungiki lakini 🙂

Katika paragraph hiyo hapo juu umeongea kwa juu sana mkuu. Go deep! Serikali yenu ndiyo ilijenga kiwanja cha ndege chenye hadhi kubwa au hujui ilikotokea?

Aiii wewe Alai! Acha uwongo bana... Barabara za Kenya zinapitika usiku na ndicho wengi wanapendelea kwakuwa zinaruhusu magendo na wakenya wengi wanaishi kwa hilo. Barabara zenu nyembamba SANA kuliko za Tz. Na kwa taarifa yako sasa... Kuna barabara inajengwa from Mwanza to Dar and from Dar to Mtwara. Nchi nzima inakuwa kwenye network. It's just the matter of time.

Halaf kumbuka sisi hatukuwaendekeza waingereza; ndilo kosa letu. Hata SA wanaweza kuringa kuwa wana uchumi mzuri kuliko all African countries... Kirahisirahisi hivyo! Lakini JE, MWANANCHI WA KAWAIDA ANANUFAIKAJE? Alai huwa unapewa posho mzee? Au Kibaki umeingia nae ubia? Wacha kusifia vitu vya kuachwa na wazungu. Halafu ukiona wazungu wanakusifia jiulize mara mia mia! Hawatupendi kamwe...! Kumradhi kama nawakosea wazungu wa aina yoyote hapa lakini wazungu wachache SANA wenye mapenzi ya kweli na Africa. Wanapokusifia elewa kuwa wanasifia ujinga wako wa kuliwa kirahisi. No... The whole Africa is poor! Tusisifie upuuzi unaoendekezwa na wachache kwakuwa wamepata fursa ya kutukamua.

Alai ungeongea kuonesha uchungu wa KWANINI hawa viongozi wetu walazimishe mambo ilhali umma wa wananchi toka nchi zote tatu hauko tayari ningekuona kichwa. Labda kama unapenda kuona tunakuwa na federation HARAKA kama wapendavyo kwa 'hisia' kwamba mambo yatanyooka baadae.

Tunataka kujua HOW WILL WE BENEFIT FROM IT na sio SERIKALI ITANUFAIKAJE. Wananchi hawapendi kuburuzwa. Kwa sasa tunakaribia kuwekewa kamba mashingoni na uburuzwaji uanze hima. Yangu mie macho!

Sio maslahi ya Wakenya natetea hapa ila nasema kwamba tusiwe tunaenda na euphoria. Tuangalie points za kufaa. Mimi sipendi jumuiya iharakishwe lakini ni vizuri tuwe kwenye jumuiya ya Africa Mashariki. Kuna watanzania wangapi wanafanya biashara ndogondogo gikomba? Hebu niambie ukilinganisha na wakenya wanaofanya biashara ndogondogo Manzese. Watanzania wenye wako Gikomba ni wengi kuliko waKenya waliopo Manzese.

Alaiiii! Wacha bwana... Manzese? Hapo wakenya hawawezi kukaa maana si soko wala gulio yakhe! Pale ni enzi zile. Manzese ilikuwepo enzi za Mwinyi na Mkapa alihakikisha upuuzi ule unaisha. Manzese ile haipo tena. Wakenya hawajajazana kwenye masoko au magulio. NO! Wao ni wasanii na wajanja wa kanyaboya, ni wakarimani kwenye mihadhara ya dini, ni wakarimani kwenye maduka ya wahindi, wachina etc, na pia wamejazana Arusha si mchezo. Tena wengi wanaitana kwenye mashirika ya UN na naishangaa UN inawaacha watanzania kibao na kuendekeza wakenya kuitiana kazi ndani ya Tz. Hivi UN nako kuna nini??? Yani wanatangaza nafasi za kazi na watanzania hata kwenye shortlist hawaonekani na wanasingizia ati watanzania waoga wa kazi. Ni udhalilishaji mbaya sana na binafsi nafikia hatua natamani serikali iwawajibishe wote wanaoajiri wageni ndani ya nchi bila kujali ni UN au nani.

Inachosha; UN ina sheria zake lakini lazima itambue kuwa Tz sio Kenya na wala Kilimanjaro haipo Kenya. Ukiona nafasi za kazi za UN zinatangazwa na akawemo mkenya akiwa ameonesha uraia wake kuwa ni Mkenya basi elewa pale atapigiwa pande hadi aingie. UN badala ya kuwaunganisha waafrika sasa inawafanya waonane wabaya wao kwa wao. Yani wamekosekana watanzania wa kuwa messengers? Hell NO!

Alai; ile janja ya wakenya inatakiwa iishe. Hapo tutaenda pamoja tena kwa furaha. Watanzania ni wakarimu sana. Ninyi mwasema Serengeti yenu... Watanzania wawanyamazia tu. Mwadai Kilimanjaro ipo Kenya, sisi twanyamaza tu huku tukiwaona mnahitaji kuombewa tu... Kweli, ni kosa la serikali yetu Tz kutowekea umakini issues inazodhania ni ndogo lakini athari zake kubwa. Alai mimi napenda tukubaliane kuwa WAKENYA HAMNA LOLOTE LA MAANA (RAIA) TOFAUTI NA WATANZANIA. Pia ukiri kuwa watanzania wanakufanya ujifunze uvumilivu. Just imagine hii forum ingekuwa ni ya wakenya?!?!! Basi najua hapa Mungiki wangeshakuvaa na kutamani wakutoe shingo ati...

Kuna wakenya waliohamia huku bongo ambao tayari ni hata mawaziri. Na tena wengine nawajua wanafanya hata usalama wataifa. Unadhani itakuwaje tukiendelea kujifanya kwamba tunaweza kusuluhisha shida hii kwa kukataliana? kuna wabongo wengi wanamuziki ambao wanajiita wakenya sasa. Na vile vile nawajuwa wakenya wengi ambao ni ma-producer na wanamuziki ambao sasa ni wabongo. Jamaa yao bado wako kwenye nchi waliotokea lakini wamechukuwa urahia wa nchi nyingine. Unategemea nini nchi kama hizi zikitengana?

Enheee... Si nilisema? Alai una nyeti! Sasa sikiza, nitumie majina ya hawa nami walau niweze kuwajua (sintosema). Yani hapo ndipo wasomaji wa JF wanatakiwa kujua kuwa kuna mengine makubwa hawajui! Oh, I love Tanzania 🙂

Sio kitu rahisi. Mgogoro ukitokea itakuwa ngumu kusuluhisha. Kuna wachagga wakenya na wachagga watanzania, wamasai wakenya na wamaasai watanzania, wajaluo wakenya na wajaluo watanzania. Wote wana ndugu kila pande ya border. Na wanafanya hata kwenye jeshi la taifa.

Kwa kauli hii unamaanisha Mchagga hata awe Kenya anaitwa Mchagga, na Mjaluo bado ni mjaluo tu. Sasa kwa hoja hii basi; wote ni ndugu kwa mtizamo wako. Sawa, sipingi... Sasa kwanini wengine ambao pia ni wachagga wanawaona wachagga wa Tz kama hawafai na hata kuthubutu kuwaita manyang'au? Shame on their bones!

Tanzania haizalishi mengi vile wakenya wanazalisha. Tanzania haina viwanda. Tanznaia ni uchumi ya uuzaji sio uzalishaji. Ukizuuia mazao utauza nini humu ndugu zangu? Mbona tuende na matakwa mabaya za watu wachache? Wakenya wamekuwa wakiishi na watanzania na tena ndio marafiki wakweli wa tanzania. Infact Tanzania ishwahi kwenda vita na Uganda lakini sio Kenya.

A typical Kenyan belief! LoL.... Mnazalisha nini ati? Hatuna viwanda? Una hakika? Sasa tunaishije ati? Kwa taarifa yako bidhaa ya Kenya niliyoitumia enzi zile... Nikiwa Musoma na Arusha, Ni kawaida ya mipakani. Hata Bukoba wanatumia Uganda warragi. Alai ni kweli sisi twawapenda wote hata wakenya na Tz kupigana vita na Ug haimaanishi ni maadui zetu. No... It was Amin! Only one idiot in Ug. Hata ikitokea kwenu kukatokea mjamaa mmoja akasumbua tuiteni... Tutamkandamiza sana ili kuwaokoa na kisha tutawaachia inchi yenu salama. We care!

Wenye hoja za nguvu ni waganda. Wakenya hawajakuwa na tabia ya kuleta hoja za nguvu kwa wageni. Wanajiletea wenyewe lakini wakiona mgeni wananyamaza na kuonyesha upendo. Lakini waganda wamevamila kila jirani yao. Unajuwa kwamba Uganda washawahi Kupigana na Sudan, Congo, Rwanda, tanzania? Kenya imewahi kupigana na nani? Hatuna hiyo tabia. Sisi ni ubishi mumohumo lakini mgeni akiingia mlangoni tunakuwa kimya.

Acha hizo Alai, waganda wala hawajui ubaya. Wabaya ni viongozi wao haswa Mu7. Huyu ni balaa kubwa kwa EAF! Na ni moja ya vitu vinavyowafanya watanzania wakatae Federation kwa sasa. Msanii mkubwa huyu. Waganda wakarimu, Kenya mna tatizo hili: Polisi wenu wanawaona watanzania kama mbwa vile... Hawawathamini kama wanavyowatetemekea wazungu. Mtanzania atababaishwa sana ati hadi atoe kipande... Hata akitoa bado wamsumbua tu ati chapaa wapi. Corrupt gov't, corrupt people n corrupt system.

Huo ndio diplomasia. Kampuni mengi dar zinaongozwa na Wakenya lakini hatujakuwa na vurugu na kampuni hizi zinafanya vizuri sana. Kwetu tuna viongozi wabaya na hicho tu ndio tunapigia kelele. Hatujaenda kwenye nchi za wengine tukaleta ubabe. Sisi sio wasomali. Kilasiku wanaharibu hiki na kile.

Hahahahaaaaaaaa! Dah, no brother! Wakenya hawasaidii kuleta ufanisi kwenye makampuni. Ni wawekezaji uchwara wanaopenda kuajiri wafanyakazi wasanii ambao wanajua itakuwa rahisi kumbabaisha mteja hivyo mteja kununua bidhaa au kuingia agreement ya issue flani bila kujua. Huo ndio usanii ninaoongelea mtu wangu. Lakini siku zinavyosonga ndivyo ujinga huo hautavumiliwa. Watajikuta nje ya system!

Jammani msiwafuate viongozi wabaya. Angalia jirani yako huyo mkenya na utaona hana vurugu vile wengine wanavyo.

Walau leo umeongea mengi na naamini wengi wamejifunza toka kwako. Sasa fanya kuwaalika wakenya wengine waje tuwasikie wasemaje ati. Tuma ujumbe thru Yahoo au Google groups wambie waje tuangalie kwa pamoja how to change our leaderships in East Africa. Sio kupindua, bali kuonya mienendo mibovu ya aina zote. Wasifikirie sifa tu bali penye ukweli A ibakie kuitwa A na si vinginevyo.

Karibu Alai... That's a Tanzanian way of discussion. Kwa upendo kabisa huku tukikuelimisha na kusababisha uwajue watanzania na uzuri wao.

FYI: Nitaoa mwanamke wa Kenya!

Pinokyo SKN · May 24, 2007

Aiii!
Ati utaoa mukenya? tehe tehe tehe bora asiwe mkikuyu, wafwa!

Alai · May 25, 2007

Mara nyingi siwi na muda wa kusoma kurasa ishirini za maneno. Na kurasa ngingi sio hoja. Talking much is not saying much. Nasema kwamba kuna wengine wataanguka njiani na wengine watakufa lakini shirikisho hili litaundwa. Infact it would be better with others inside. Gari ya shirikisho imeanza mwendo hapa na kama unajiskia kuruka basi pole kwasababu the next stop is still far away.

Dua · May 26, 2007

Alai

Naona bado uko usingizini endelea kulala.

Keykey · May 28, 2007

Tanzania and Uganda reject Wako's bid to present nominees

Tanzania and Uganda early this month rejected Kenya's nominees to the East African Legislative Assembly which will be tabled in Parliament tomorrow, the Nation can disclose today.

Kenya had attempted to re-submit the same nominees through attorney-general Amos Wako but the two neighbours said the move was illegal.

During an
AG Amos Wako
extraordinary meeting of the Sectoral Council on Legal and Judicial Affairs, Mr Wako argued that the regional assembly should adopt the practice in Kenya where MPs are sworn in and election petitions against them determined later.

http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=99061

omarilyas · May 29, 2007

Dua said:
Tuesday, 11 February, 2003, 02:19 GMT
Profile: Kenya's secretive Mungiki sect

The Mungiki are a growing force in Kenya

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2745421.stm

Hao ndio Mungiki - Killers

Ama kweli Bush na genge lake wana wanafunzi wengi. Hii inanikumbusha "THOSE DAMN TERRORISTS" "OSAMA" "OUR ENEMIES" "AXIS OF EVILE" etc.

Tanzanianjema

MkamaP · Jun 2, 2007

NEWS

Kibaki's agony on killings

Story by NATION Team
Publication Date: 6/2/2007

The killing of five people among them a chief in President Kibakis Othaya constituency has left security chiefs asking hard questions about the real intention of the attacks.

Villagers help a relative of one of the assistant chiefs who was killed last night by suspected member of Mungiki sect in Kianguthu sub-location in Othaya, yesterday. Photo/PAUL WANJIRU
The five were killed by gunmen suspected to be linked to the outlawed Mungiki sect on the eve of Madaraka Day, the same day that leaflets were distributed in parts of the city and Thika, inciting people against the Government.

Those killed included two assistant chiefs, one in Othaya and the other in Kangema constituency, which is represented in Parliament by Internal Security minister John Michuki.

In a swift reaction yesterday, the President vowed to deal ruthlessly with gangsters, including the outlawed sect.

There is no way as a Kenyan that you can have a right to kill another Kenyan; if you do so we will get you, no matter where you hide, and you will be killed, he said in his address to the nation on Madaraka Day. And he told wananchi: We must stop hiding these criminals. No one has a right to kill another person.

Shot dead

In the Othaya attack, a lone gunman shot dead the assistant chief of Kiaguthu sub-location, Mr Richard Maina Chege, at about 11pm on the eve of Madaraka Day.

Mr Chege, 40, was shot outside his gate just after he had disembarked from a matatu which he had boarded at Kagicha trading centre.

And in Kangema, the Githiga sub-location assistant chief, Mr Geoffrey Kuria, 36, was killed alongside his elder brother, Mr Humphrey Rugio, 40, who was a headteacher at Kibutha Primary School in the area. Their 74-year-old mother, Mrs Margaret Wambui Mwangi, and her grandson, Mr Jimna Mwangi, 18, were also shot dead by a lone gunman inside her house at about 8.30pm.

But police spokesman Eric Kiraithe issued a statement yesterday, saying that the assistant chiefs family was killed by a gang of armed men while the Othaya administrator was shot dead by unknown persons.

He said police had arrested four suspects over the Kangema attack while three others were seized in Othaya.

The killings occurred after threats by Mungiki that they would cause mayhem in some parts of the country.

Though police did not link the latest killings to the sect, there was a remarkable similarity between them and the executions that rocked parts of Kiambu District last month.

The killings took place on the same day that leaflets were distributed in parts of Nairobi by sect members threatening to hold a parallel meeting in the city. The meeting was banned by the police.

Addressing the nation from Nyayo National Stadium 12 hours after the killings, the President said: We must have peace, but there are some people who want to bring fujo (trouble) by killing others; these people should know we are ready for them and we will take them head on.

President Kibaki warned criminal gangs that their days were numbered and they would no longer kill and expect to go on with their lives.

Uncover criminals

He appealed to the public to help police uncover criminals by giving tips to law enforcement agencies.

The President urged the public not to fear such outlawed groups.

We are saying it openly that anyone who feels he has worked hard let him rest assured we will give him protection, but if there is someone who is jobless and is not looking for a job, he has no right to engage in crime. That is not right, he said.

News of the killings plunged the affected villages into sorrow and shock yesterday.

In Githiga, Mrs Jane Nyambura, Mr Kurias wife, said her brother-in-law, Mr Rugio, was retiring to bed in his house when he found a stranger waiting for him outside.

He found a man who asked him wewe ni nani? (who are you). He identified himself and the man pushed him back into the kitchen, she said. The attacker entered the kitchen and started spraying bullets on the four people inside, killing them instantly.

We screamed to alert neighbours and called the police who arrived 15 minutes later, Mrs Nyambura said.

In Othaya, Mr Mainas wife, Mrs Sela Maina, said two men had gone to her home at about 8pm when she was preparing supper.

They first knocked on the door of the reading room where the children were busy reading and they were directed to me in the kitchen, she said.

Only one of them entered the kitchen where she was preparing food. He had a big gun and he identified himself as a corporal and informed me that they were on patrol. They wanted to see my husband, she said.

She gave the corporal two chapatis one for him and the other for his colleague who was outside. But about 11pm, she heard gunshots near the gate of her home.

First, I thought it was thunderstorm but I eventually gathered courage and went to find out because I also heard somebody groaning. That was when she saw her husband lying in a pool of blood. The chapatis Mrs Maina had given the corporal were found at the scene of killing.

Central provincial commissioner Kiplimo Rugut, who accompanied Mr Michuki to the two villages, said an Administration Police officer was among the four people arrested in Kangema.

A saloon car believed to have been used during the attack on the chiefs family was also being seized.

Reports by Muchemi Wachira, Waikwa Maina and Odhiambo Orlal

Hawa Jamaa duuu ni chiboko

MkamaP · Jun 5, 2007

Hiki ndico hatutaki kuungana na Kenya
siasa zao ni za uhasama kweli kweli mpaka wana form Mungiki family

More deaths blamed on Mungiki

Story by NATION Team
Publication Date: 6/5/2007

Police in Nairobi shot dead 21 people early this morning and four other people were found murdered in suspected Mungiki attacks.

Police say the 21 people were killed during an operation to recover firearms stolen from three policemen who were killed - in Mungiki related attacks - in Mathare last night.

In Muranga, four people, among them an elderly couple, were found murdered and their heads severed in the bizarre Mungiki style.

Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said the Mathare operation captured seven prime suspects. Several weapons were also recovered.

In Muranga, the CID director and the GSU commandant are already leading investigations into the bizarre murders.

Meanwhile, a cabinet minister has said atrocities being perpetrated by members of the outlawed Mungiki sect are geared towards discrediting the Kibaki administration.

Information and Communications Minister Mr Mutahi Kagwe told those behind the attacks that their missions were doomed to fail as he urged Kenyans to assist the government in arresting those involved.

Speaking at the home of slain Kiaguthu assistant chief in Othaya division, Mr Kagwe said, "This country has faced more serious issues than this we shall overcome."

He said the gang behind the killings wanted Kenyans to believe the government was out of control. He added that their days were numbered and they would soon be proved wrong.

Last week, President Kibaki issued a warning that Mungiki activities would no longer be tolerated.

Dua · Jun 7, 2007

Disturbance after Kenyan killings

Police in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, have fired tear gas during protests by women opposed to their crackdown on members of the banned Mungiki sect. About 20 women demanded police leave Mathare slums after 21 people were killed in a shoot-out there on Tuesday.

Police have also recovered another beheaded body in the slum. Opposition and religious leaders are accusing the police of extrajudicial killings in retaliation for the deaths on Monday of three police officers.

Last week, the president warned Mungiki activities would no longer be tolerated and ordered a shoot-to-kill policy. MPs from Central Province have just ended a day long meeting to discuss the security crisis blamed on the outlawed Mungiki group.

'Orgy of slaughter'

Mungiki sect members say in a leaflet circulating in Nairobi, that only one of their followers was killed during the gun battle with the police on Tuesday night. "We chased away Mungiki, they no longer live here," the women shouted at the policemen on patrol.

Several Mathare residents complained that they were terrified by the large police presence. "The government has bungled badly with these killings, you cannot just go into an orgy of wanton slaughter," opposition leader Raila Odinga told Reuters news agency.

The security forces in Kenya have spent the past three months trying to crack down on criminal elements in the Mungiki - a sect which it is claimed runs an extensive extortion operation and is reported to have connections high up in Kenya politics.

The police blamed them for the beheading of six people last month in central Kenya. On Monday night, three police officers were killed while on patrol on foot in the Mathare slums. They were robbed of their AK-47 rifles.

Extortion racket

The Mungiki are thought to be militants from Kenya's biggest ethnic group, the Kikuyu. Last week, President Mwai Kibaki reacted angrily to a spate of recent grisly murders and beheadings in the central region blamed on the Mungiki.

They are said to have been revenge attacks on people who had leaked information about their activities to the police. "There is no-one who has the right to take a life and if you choose to do that and try to hide we will get you," Mr Kibaki said.

The Mungiki, which means multitude in Kikuyu, claim to have more than one million followers across the country. Some commentators have linked them to politicians wanting to cause unrest and fear ahead of December elections. The sect promotes female circumcision and oath-taking and was outlawed in 2002.

In recent years they have been battling with public transport operators who refuse to pay them protection fees.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/6727155.stm

Je serikali ya Kenya inaweza kuwathibiti hawa wakati kuna taarifa kwamba wana connection kwenye high places? Je vyombo vya habari vya Kenya vinaipa coverage inayotakiwa?

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