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Article: Kenya's dreaded Mungiki sect calls for ceasefire
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 18, 2008
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Kenya's dreaded Mungiki sect calls for ceasefire
NAIROBI, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's illegal Mungiki sect
leadership has called off the four-day clashes with the country's
security forces, hours after Prime Minister Raila Odinga pleaded
with them to stop the killings and destruction of property across
the country.
Mungiki leader, Maina Njenga, who is serving a five-year jail
sentence for illegal possession of firearms, said from his prison
base that he had been touched by Odinga's remarks that Mungiki
members could be productively engaged in nation building
"Let all the youths involved in the countrywide strike stop and
help Raila build this nation. We believe the prime minister will ...
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