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Ndura Waruinge went ‘under water’ to study and is awaiting graduation, contrary to speculation that he is at the International Criminal Court at the Hague where he’s scheduled to ‘fix’ someone.
The former leader of the outlawed Mungiki sect says he has been on a ‘sabbatical leave’ studying for a bachelors degree in the ‘science of addiction’ at St Mary’s University, US since 2010.
“The ICC revolves around Mungiki where I was a leader before leaving it to Maina (Njenga). I have never been a witness of either side because I have been and will be against the ICC process, more so, where our people are tried in a foreign land,” he says.
Ndura allays fears over his safety saying he is a comfortable man currently busy shepherding his flock at the Miracle Valley International Church in Donholm, Nairobi. “I have never been scared about my life because nobody dies twice.”
“We parted ways with Mungiki in 2004 after I heard a voice from God, which told me to abandon Mungiki and follow Jesus. We had no grudge with other members, it is God’s voice that motivated me,” he recalls.
The proscribed sect’s hallmarks included beheading of deserters, macabre killing of security agents and ordinary citizens.
“The best healing is where people speak the truth and confess any wrongs they have done. I don’t feel bad to be associated with the ICC because deep inside my heart, I know am not a witness. By virtue of having been a former Mungiki leader, it is obvious people will like to link me to the ICC,” he notes.
The husband of Celine, and father of Samuel aged 12, Dan, eight and four-year-old Elvin thinks that some powerful individuals within and outside the corridors of power at State House want him to be a defense witness.
“The rumour that am a prosecution witness is not circulated by the ordinary people but people closer to Uhuru because they want to intimidate me so that I can become a defense witness, but they don’t know how to approach me,” he claims.
