Pastor Beatrice Kamau has said that the Kibaki government should keep its hands off Honourable Mwandawiro Mghanga whom the government has tried to link with Mungiki sect, an underground Movement that has been beheading Kenyans in an orgy of cold blooded murders that have shocked Kenyan citizens and the International community alike.
Speaking to KSB, Pastor Beatrice said that the government knows who are behind Mungiki and that the Kibaki government should not therefore use the Movement to throw mud on respected and revolutionary politicians like Mwandawiro.
“I have worked with Mwandawiro here in Sweden for several years and I know him politically. Mwandawiro is too ideological to be engaged with a criminal organization like Mungiki”, Pastor Beatrice told KSB.
She said that Mungiki is a tiny organization and that if the government cannot contain it with the vast state resources at its disposal, then Kenya has no government.
Mwandawiro should not be harassed simply because he has been in the frontlines in fighting against the landless in Kenya.
“Mwandawiro’s political stand is well known and there is no way the Kibaki government will be able to deceive Kenyans who know Mwandawiro that he is connected to Mungiki”, Pastor Beatrice said.
“There are watch dogs examining events in Kenya very carefully. We are studying the lies being told around Mwandawiro with keen interest. The Kibaki government should be warned that there are people in Sweden and around the world who will not sit by and watch Mwandawiro’s reputation destroyed by the corrupt government that Kibaki leads”, she said. “We will respond to defend Mwandawiro from false attacks”, she added
Pastor Beatrice said that what Kenyans are witnessing today reflects the situation during the Mwakenya crackdown when the dictatorship of Daniel arap Moi used to arrest, intimidate, harass and imprison innocent Kenyans using Mwakenya.
“The days of harassing and intimidating Kenyans by connecting them to criminal or underground organizations like Mwakenya are over. We will never be taken back because Kenyans shed blood for the current democratic gains in the country”, she said.
“The risk is that if Kenyans cannot speak up forcefully on how the Mungiki killings are being used by the government for political reasons, Kenya may begin to degenerate the way Rwanda did”, Pastor Beatrice told KSB.
NON KIKUYUS CANNOT BE MEMBERS OF MUNGIKI
“Mwandawiro is a fighter for democracy and it is a big shame that the Kibaki government is trying to link him to Mungiki”, she said.
The Pastor said that it is a well known fact that Mungiki has publicly declared that non Kikuyus cannot join the movement because of the Kikuyu rituals involved.
“Mwandawiro is a Taita so how comes that for the first time, it is being claimed that a Taita is a member of a criminal organization reserved for Kikuyus?”, she posed.
Pastor Beatrice stated that Mungiki started as a Kikuyu cultural organization but added that at the moment, it is a terror organization killing innocent civilians in the name of the culture. She condemned the killings that have shocked Kenyans and members of the International community, saying that Movements like Mungiki have no place in modern Kenya.
“Cabinet Ministers have been named as having been linked to Mungiki. These are the people the government should arrest, not Mwandawiro”, she said emphatically.
Mwandawiro has today released a personal statement regarding the fraudulent connections the government is trying to make between him and Mungiki. The MP is currently out on bail after recording a statement with police.
For Kenyans in Stockholm, the issue is very sensitive because it is a demonstration that returning to Kenyan to practice politics to build the nation does not exclude the fact that one can still be targeted by the government using false accusations.
Okoth Osewe
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