Nairobi, May 28 -- Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho has ordered a crackdown on Mungiki sect members exploiting traders in central Kenya.
He instructed county commissioners and police commanders to implement his directive with immediate effect.
"Mungiki have returned and they are causing fear among the traders. They should be tamed," he said on Wednesday at Ngurubani Stadium in Kirinyaga County during a tour of developed projects in the area.
He observed that the sect's adherents are now going round the region demanding protection fee from traders who have already been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
EXTORTING TRADERS
Dr Kibicho stressed that Mungiki is majorly concentrated in Kirinyaga where they are extorting money f...