Team told of Mungiki visit to State House

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Team told of Mungiki visit to State House
Story by SAMWEL KUMBA Publication Date: 7/23/2008
Members of the outlawed Mungiki sect are said to have visited State House in the wake of post-election violence, the Waki Commission heard Tuesday.
Lawyer Muriuki Mugambi, for the police, asked Ms Muthoni Wanyeki, the executive director of Kenya Human Rights Commission, to shed more light on the subject.
However, human rights lawyer Haron Ndubi intervened, telling the commission that the information had already been shared in camera.
Ms Wanyeki had in the morning given her evidence in camera, where she named the actual perpetrators of violence.
They included names of individuals and politicians who bankrolled post- election violence.
More deaths
Information about the Mungiki visit to State House is contained on a DVD that was on Monday produced as an exhibit to the commission.
The election investigations team was also told that had PNU and ODM failed to enter into dialogue and subsequently struck an agreement, more deaths could have occurred.
Ms Wanyeki said there were misplaced priorities in the deployment of police officers during the post-election chaos.
Asked by Mr Mugambi to provide the figures, Ms Wanyeki said she did not have the actual figures, but that from mere observation they were not deployed on a needs basis.
According to her, more policemen were needed in Rift Valley and other volatile areas than in Nairobi.
The KHRC boss said her organisation had not supplied the police with the data it submitted to the commission in camera Tuesday as they were still establishing the best way to release it.