{{Former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki\u2019s Private Secretary Nick Wanjohi has denied allegations by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecution\u2019s expert witness, Herve Maupeu, that over 500 members of the Mungiki sect were massacred under the former president\u2019s tenure.}}<\/p>\n
Wanjohi not only described the allegations as unfounded but malicious as Kibaki had instead sought to \u201crehabilitate and integrate\u201d members of the sect.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe allegations attributed to the \u2018expert\u2019 amount to nothing but prima facie witchcraft and reckless mischief bereft of any iota of objectivity. Such allegations are best treated with a generous serving of salt and the contempt they deserve,\u201d Wanjohi stated.<\/p>\n
Wanjohi questioned the Frenchman\u2019s expertise on Kenya\u2019s socio-political affairs urging that his testimony be taken in the context of an \u201cintellectual poseur.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThough described as an \u2018expert witness\u2019 he has made several far-fetched and laughable allegations about Kenya. His \u2018expert advice\u2019 begs immediate correction and placement within both context and perspective,\u201d he restated.<\/p>\n
Free Universal Basic Education and the Youth Fund, both began during President Kibaki\u2019s terms in office, he said, were fine examples of President Kibaki\u2019s attitude toward the youth.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis administration was concerned with such groupings as Chinkororo, Baghdad Boys, Angola-Musumbiji and Mungiki. The ultimate aim of this initiative was to enable members of such groupings to positively participate in nation-building alongside everybody else,\u201d Wanjohi stated.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Maupeu told the ICC in the case facing Deputy President William Ruto and former radio presenter Joshua arap Sang that former security minister, the late John Michuki, orchestrated the \u201cmassacre\u201d of Mungiki because he believed they wouldn\u2019t vote for him or Kibaki in the 2007 general election.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn March 2007 various police forces massacred all the groups that appeared to be Mungiki in Central Province so by the end of 2007, the Mungiki had very little mobilisation capacity,\u201d he testified.<\/p>\n
It was however not the first time such an allegation had been made with The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) raising the same concern in 2009. <\/p>\n
An accusation the Kenya Police Force, at the time, denied at a time when Special Rapporteur for Human Rights, Professor Philip Alston, was finalising a report on extra-judicial killings.<\/p>\n
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