I have no empathy or sympathy for those boys gunned down in Eastleigh

I've been trying to decide what my feelings really are about the Eastleigh shootings. Gory and inhumane as they were.

BUT, when I draw parallels with what happened with the Mungiki fellas, I think I have my answer. Police had to employ unorthodox means to silence Mungiki. 'Normal' ways of arrests and hauling them to court were seemingly not working. Often, there was no hard 'evidence' against them judicially and they'd soon be back on the streets and villages even when it was known who they really were.

I remember Michuki missed a bullet aimed at him in his house in Kangema. I don't remember if it was around that time when he issued a shoot to kill order. There was uproar from some quarters but I think those who had really felt the Mungiki heat silently applauded.

As someone who has lived in Central for a while now, I can say with a certain degree of certainty that the Mungiki menace was greatly watered down. People no longer wake up to dismembered heads stuck to a stick planted outside the home early dawn. Walinyamazishwa kiasi even if during such election years you keep hearing rumors here and there.

I know police really did use unorthodox means to 'finish' Mungiki.

Some of those ways I cannot discuss on this platform but ukinipata huko nje uniulize. Is it an end justifies the means kind of a situation? On this one I say yes. I have no empathy or sympathy for those boys gunned down in Eastleigh. None.

Let them be examples of what happens to you when you live by the sword. Seems this gang had really terrorized innocent people.