1. He was only two years old, innocent and bubbling with life. But when they found him on Wednesday after missing since Monday, his body lay lifeless by a riverbank, hacked and carved out in a chilling incident the police say was a ritual killing by Mungiki members. The head and the torso were found a few metres apart - but with vital body parts missing. The head had been skinned, his private parts, chest and part of the hands were missing.
   July 12, 2007
   A human rights organisation that has been giving free legal services to suspected Mungiki adherents has withdrawn its services. The organisation withdrew the legal services citing the ghastly beheading and skinning of a two-year-old boy in what is suspected to be ritual killing.
   July 13, 2007
    

2. It was a grisly scene; human body parts next to a blackened pot, raw blood sprinkled on a dusty floor and a skinned carcass of a goat. The items, found inside a house where 12 Mungiki suspects were shot dead in Murang'a on Sunday, offer spine-chilling insights into oathing ceremonies conducted by the killer gang.
   July 4, 2007
    

3. More than 300 people have been arrested in Murang'a as the crackdown against Mungiki was intensified at the weekend. The arrests came a day after a matatu driver and conductor were beheaded and their vehicle burnt by a gang linked to the outlawed sect. Meanwhile, security officers for two MPs have also been withdrawn as part of the ongoing investigations. Those affected are Wundanyi MP Mwandawiro Mghanga and Juja MP William Kabogo.
   June 4, 2007
    
4. This is the head, and there are two cuts on the neck," Lucia Wangari says, using dry twigs to demonstrate the gory find. "A stick is pushed through to support the head, and further hoisted on the pole. When I saw it, the head stood this way?" Wangari explains, mouth ajar and hands akimbo.
   May 23, 2007
    
5. Police in Maragua stumbled on Mungiki suspects with parts of male reproductive organs. Local Officer Commanding Police Division, Mr Stanley Lamai, said the scene was also littered with blood and other paraphernalia associated with the sect. More organs were found in a house nearby during the Tuesday night raid in Githemba village.
   May 7, 2007
    
6. Kenya's government says it has evidence devil worshippers are sacrificing humans, drinking their blood and raping children and urges the public to shun such satanic cults.
   September 24, 1994
    

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