Waruinge: We soaked 'carpet' with petrol and tried to light Freemason building but it never caught fire

Rev Ndura Waruinge during an interview at his Mfalme Wa Amani Ministries in Nairobi. [PHOTO: ELVIS OGINA]

Former Mungiki coordinator Ndura Waruinge has opened up on why sect members wanted the Freemasons' Hall along Nyerere Road destroyed. 22 years ago, Waruinge, now reformed and preaching the gospel, led about 400 Mungiki members to the Masonic lodge where Freemasons conduct their private affairs and prayers. But the mission to raze down the hall aborted when they stumbled upon some paraphernalia -skeleton figurines.

Armed with jerricans full of petrol, adherents stormed the lodge following rumours that a snake belonging to Freemasons had swallowed a child of one of their members in Jericho estate.
"Following the claim, and out of curiosity, we decided to revenge by storming the Freemasons' Hall with the intention of burning it," said Ndura, founder of Crusaders for Christ Ministry.