An Administrative police officer has come out to narrate his ordeal at the hands of the7 outlawed Mungiki sect members.
The officer, Apollo Kahungu, got his troubles started immediately after a crackdown of Mungiki sect members which happened in Muranga.
In 2008, Mungiki gang was a menace, conducting violent raids in homes and shopping centres, abducting young men whose bodies would later be retrieved in rivers and thickets.
The government deployed officers and mysterious disappearances of the sect members were regularly reported.
After actively participating in the purge against the outlawed group, Kahungu is said to have run into a section of residents who are sympathetic of the group.
These individuals would later make him a marked man.
“In 2013, I got transferred from our station in Embakasi to Murang’a, the very area where I had received numerous threats. I felt my life was in danger,” he said.
“I explained the danger I perceived to my bosses but this fell on deaf ears.”
One day, some people came to a base where he was with his colleagues inquiring about him, requesting to see him but he got suspicious.
“I sent one of my colleagues to spy on them and determine who they were because I suspected they were Mungiki operatives who had been baying for my blood for some time,” he said.
His colleague’s answer was affirmative. These were Mungiki members. At this point, Kahungu escaped from his base to Kangema AP line camp, whose boss allowed him to stay there.
“A few weeks later while on patrol, I was hit by a car, sustaining a critical injury that left me on a wheelchair and now with scratches,” he said.
While still recuperating, Kahungu was surprised to receive a transfer letter, deploying him to another sub-county in Murang’a.
“Even before I could be able to walk, I got transferred and later I was accused of not reporting for duty,” dejected Kahungu said.