Former Mungiki leader Ndura Waruinge has likened the Nairobi goons who infiltrated the protests on Tuesday to the Mungiki sect.
Speaking during a Citizen TV interview on Saturday, June 21, the now-reformed sect leader shed some light on how such organisations run, claiming that they are created for the sole purpose of running a political narrative.
He revealed that such goons were always mobilised and protected by powerful people, as demonstrated during the protests when they linked up with the police officers.
"The first reason for the goons being deployed by anybody, because goons are not owned, goons are created for a particular purpose, is because of political reasons, economic reasons or any other reason, as operations to the initiator of the issue," he stated.
In fact, he added that it was possible for goons to remain non-violent, unless they were ordered to, with the promise of compensation.
"Goons are not goons until they become violent. If they had demonstrated and done their things properly, they could not have been called goons. Mungiki was a good organisation when serving the masters, but when we were not with the masters, we became goons," he elaborated.
Further explaining how Mungiki finally became radicalised, he revealed that due to the protection they were getting from police officers, they became invincible.
This, he said, was what was most likely to happen if the goons outgrew their protectors and the law enforcement, making them a movement of their own without a fear of consequences.
Waruinge's remarks come just days after the goons wreaked havoc on protestors in the Central Business District, purporting that they were protecting the business owners.
However, what ensued was robberies of both protesters and the same business owners they said they wanted to protect.
As they retreated to where they came from, they hailed the Nairobi Governor, Johnson Sakaja, who, in a subsequent statement, dissociated himself from any gangs.
A section of the goons have also admitted to having been told that they were paid to cause the chaos.
