TWO top Mungiki leaders were killed on the Naivasha-Nairobi highway.

Acting Mungiki chairman, Charles Ndung'u Wagacha, and treasurer, Naftali Irungu, were reportedly driving to Naivasha Prison yesterday to meet their chairman when they were killed.

They were shot near Uplands shopping centre by gunmen who had trailed them from Limuru at about 1 pm. Each body had at least ten bullet wounds and the gunmen seemed to have taken their time during the execution.

Witnesses said the assailants opened the boot of the deceased's car and escaped with a briefcase that some Mungiki leaders said had Mr Maina Njenga's clothes.

Mr Bernard Ndabu, a witness, said: " The attackers sprayed the vehicle with many bullets before it landed in a ditch."

It happened so fast that he and other witnesses were not able to see how many occupants were in the two cars that trailed the Mungiki members.

"One car tried to overtake that of the victims before occupants started shooting at them at close range, making the driver lose control and land into a ditch," Ndabu said.

He said the two saloon cars carrying the gunmen stopped after a few metres, three men stepped out and walked to where the vehicle had crashed. They fired more bullets at the occupants.

One gunman opened the boot and removed a briefcase. As crowd started to gather at the scene but the gunmen kept them at bay. Apart from the briefcase, nothing else was stolen from the two.