AL SHABAB LINKED TO MAU MAU REBELLION BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU The terrorist group Al Shabab has been linked to Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950’s in pre-independent Kenya in its mode of operations. While speaking to a gathering at the annual lecture held by Centre for Demilitarization snd Constitutionalism on Democratization in Africa ,British Born University Don,Dr Gabrielle Lynch of the Department of Political and International Studies, University of Warwick said that there were ideological links between both groups and era. She explained that this was so because of the way armed gangs around the world interpreted situations which usually lead to their war of incoherency. She noted that AL Shabab for instance claims that they are fighting the authorities because of the way Muslims are treated in the Horn of Africa,East Africa and worldwide. She however urged all government to think of a different approach to approach terror issues since current trends does not seems to be working at all. She affirmed that while trying to balance power ,the current regime of President Uhuru Kenyatta also have to endear itself to the populace thus the kind of approach it has used so far to tackle Al Shabab in the wake of the bombing of the westgate Mall in Nairobi last year. She denied that she was praising America and the United Kingdom as the best things that a democracy can be but quickly added that people all have things to learn from each other. She pointed out that since she was not from Africa and the environment and situations were different she can only make suggestions but only Africans can solve there own peculiar problems. She insisted that the riots the engulfed the 2007 elections in Kenya was not a rejection of democratic norms but a rejection of the manipulation of the polls. Dr Lynch affirmed that it had become even more critical in today’s Kenya for stability and peace to exist side by side as it was unthinkable to be thinking otherwise. The don blamed the media and civil society for helping to increase the stoke of violence during the crisis in Kenya in 2007.,adding that the fall out of that period has now made the local populace in Kenya to lose interest in election.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:02:22 +0000
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