The Azimio La Umoja One Kenya alliance house leadership is now blaming National Intelligence Security for failing to prevent the Shakahola slaughter.
Speaking to the media at the media centre in Parliament buildings, minority leader of the National Assembly Opiyo Wandayi and his Senate counterpart Stewart Madzayo described what is happening in Shakahola as "the job of the devil and his many hidden agents living among us."
"This is a failure of the state." It's an unacceptable failure of Security Intelligence that, in principle, runs from Nairobi to Shakahola and every village in Kenya, finishing with chiefs, assistant chiefs, village elders, and, more importantly, Nyumba Kumi leaders," said Opiyo Wandayi.
"This system failed, and Kenyans demand to know why," said Senate minority leader Stwart Madzayo.
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The leaders have raised questions about our security apparatus, aiming to assess the country's security and intelligence systems and redefine what it regards as national security and its associated threats.
"So many people have died and many more are still dying in the Shakahola, pastor Makenzie suspected to be behind this Massacre, while numerous others walk away from their homes to Shakahola, many remained away for so long starved and died without anybody noticing or reporting to any authority... Something is wrong, and a public investigation with sanctions for those who rested on the job is required," Wandayi remarked.
As of Monday, 58 bodies had been excavated, and many more suspected shallow graves are thought to hold many more bodies, mostly women and children who have starved to death.
The main suspect, preacher Paul Makenzie Nthenge, is being held in custody to assist police in their investigations.
