By Standard team
Security apparatus are on alert ahead of today’s planned protest by Mungiki sect in support of the UN report on extra-judicial killings.
The sect plans to paralyse transport and other businesses to call for the implementation of the report.
Sources from within the sect said the protest could affect Nairobi, parts of Central and Rift Valley provinces.
"Let us wait until then and see if the situation allows for us to air our anger. So many souls have been killed," said one follower who did not want to be named.
The protest comes as matatu operators fear the report could trigger extortion from the sect members.
In Thika yesterday, matatu operators claimed Mungiki members were demanding Sh200 a vehicle daily.
They sought audience with local DC Wilson Njega, who said a crackdown would be launched to weed out the suspects.
"No one will be allowed to reap where he did not sow," Mr Njenga said.
Police indicted
The complaints come barely a week after UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston released a report, which implicated security forces in extra-judicial killings of Mungiki suspects.
Government Spokesman Alfred Mutua said security measures have been put in place to stop the demos, which he termed illegal.
He claimed The Oscar Foundation and other NGOs had planned the protests.
Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe too said they are on high alert to avert any crimes.
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Police sources said several meetings were held at various places to plan how to counter the protests.
Meanwhile, Attorney-General Amos Wako says he is ready to resign should there be substantive reasons to do so.
Mr Wako, who was responding to calls to quit by UN Special Rapporteur, said he was yet to find grounds warranting his resignation.
Give details
"I’m looking for the report. He just made a Press statement. What I am looking for are specific instances where the AG failed to prosecute.
I’m waiting to see the files he may have identified and if they reached my desk and I failed to prosecute," said Wako at the launch of the Witness Protection Unit at Kenya School of Monetary Studies, Nairobi.
Wako has come under stinging criticism over alleged extra-judicial killings by the police and claims of failing to prosecute certain cases.
Reports by Cyrus Ombati, Boniface Gikandi, Wairimu Kamande and Peter Opiyo.