Leaders want government to stop resurgence of Mungiki sect

Ex Mungiki leader Maina Njenga Supporters demonstrates outside Director of Criminal Investigations Headquarters after he was arrested on May, 25, 2022. [Samson Wire, Standard]

Recent events around Maina Njenga, former leader of the dreaded Mungiki sect are causing anxiety among mainstream churches and government circles that the sect could be regrouping.

At the centre of all this is Njenga, who now says he is a bishop of his own church, and the emergence of a new grouping, Amani Sasa, which has so far registered more than 5,000 members.