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| Mungiki Civil Militia Activities: A Threat to Kenyan National Security
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Amon Rimamtanung Stephen, isa Hamza, ibrahim Ibn Mohammed
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Abstract:
Mungiki is a Kenya African traditional religious movement that originated in the late 1980s amongst the Gikuyu or Kikuyu the Kenyan largest tribe, with the intention of returning Kenyan's back to traditional religion as opposed to Christianity which they consider as a foreign religion that was brought by a white man and which cause a lots of Gikuyu to embrace the foreign way of worship and abandoned their traditional god called 'Ngai' who reside on Mount Kenya to whom they worship and pray for, The consequences of abandoning African culture and religion, which, according to the group, has been the current cause of Kenyan calamities, which has to do with corruption and bad governance that is common practice within the Kenyan Government elite which go against the African ethics. The movement later deviated from their African traditional religious revival, into civil militia activities, Mungiki are best known for organized armed criminal activities, Mungiki operates primarily in the Nairobi slums, in the Central Province and in the Rift Valley. Extortion and violence tend to constitute their mode of operations, and gross human rights violations perpetrated against civilians. The aim of this paper is to interrogate how Mungiki civil militia activities constitute a threat to Kenyan national security.
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