This article appeared in yesterday's Sunday Nation. Its penned by Mutua Makau. I like Makau's articles because they always look at the issue under discussion with such open-mindedness that you are left knowing what is expected of you. In this article he looks at the social aspect of the Mungiki menace and how to attend to it and solve the problem. Problem is, we have a short-sighted cabal of government operatives who benefit from the mayhem and bringing it to an end isnt in their interest.
An excerpt:
Something is deeply wrong. The government seems to have no clue about who exactly is responsible for these savage acts. Even worse, the State appears not to know why the dastardly crimes are being perpetrated. It feels and sounds as though there is a security vacuum in the country.
Inexorably, Kenya is drifting towards a lawless culture, the type of malevolent condition that has devoured many an African state. Are these problems temporary, or do they signify an irreversible descend into utter chaos and State failure?
Read it here:
http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=25&newsid=100460
Makau Mutua is a distinguished Professor at State University of New York, Buffalo and Chairman of KHRC.
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