Kenya’s Cult movement gang beheads a farmer
By agencies
NAIROBI, By agencies - Suspected members of Kenya's banned Mungiki gang have beheaded a tea farmer in the country's central region, police said on Tuesday.
The incident blamed on Mungiki, a mafia-like organisation running an extortion empire in the country and notorious for its brutal methods, occurred in Kirinyaga district on Monday.
"We are investigating," police spokesperson Eric Kiraithe told AFP.
The Mungiki was once a quasi-religious group of dreadlocked youths who embraced traditional rituals, but it has evolved into a powerful crime ring with political links that police have been trying to eradicate.
Since March last year, dozens of people have been killed by the Mungiki, several of them beheaded. Police responded with a crackdown in which they killed scores of gang members.