Article: Kenya's dreaded Mungiki sect calls for ceasefire

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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