The police have had some success in tackling the Mungiki group
Vigilante groups are on the rise in Kenya.
Armed and with overt political agendas, they have a habit of surfacing when general elections are around the corner. And two such groups have been a particular security headache of late.
One is a somewhat mysterious group from around Mount Elgon in western Kenya calling itself the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF).
The other, called Mungiki, is considered more ominous because it has been drawing disaffected and poor youth from the dominant Kikuyu ethnic group.
Paramilitaries they are not, but they have been a security nightmare nonetheless. The two gangs are quite different, but each has been targeting to kill government agents in their areas of operation.
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