Kenya: Mungiki leader freed from prison

The leader of a banned Kenyan gang has been freed after charges that he murdered 28 people were dropped.Maina Njenga was freed on Friday and called on all fellow Mungiki members to renounce membership and become Christians.

Speaking in a church in the centre of Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, Njenga said: "I have now come to learn that there is something bigger than what is in that mountain... I want to be singing in the church and then I get baptised.

"Those others out there who have not come up publicly should follow suit and get saved and get out of the Mungiki."

Njenga had led Mungiki, a pseudo-religious group of dreadlocked youths who worshipped spirits in Mount Kenya and embraced rituals such as female circumcision.

Full article: Al Jazeera