A Kenyan member of parliament has been shot lifeless within the streets of the capital Nairobi by gunmen on a bike in a suspected assassination.
Police stated the attackers had been trailing Charles Ong’ondo Have been’s automobile earlier than certainly one of them received off the bike and shot him at shut vary.
“The character of this crime seems to be each focused and predetermined,” police spokesperson Muchiri Nyaga stated in a press release.
The opposition MP had two months in the past complained about threats to his life, native media reported.
After the taking pictures on late Wednesday, his driver and bodyguard, each unharmed, managed to hurry the injured MP to Nairobi Hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless on arrival.
The assault occurred alongside Ngong Highway close to a busy roundabout usually manned by site visitors law enforcement officials and effectively secured with safety cameras.
Shortly after the taking pictures, senior police commanders and detectives visited the scene and investigations are underway, police stated.
President William Ruto has ordered police to conduct a radical investigation into the assault, including that: “These accountable have to be held to account.”
Fellow legislators who visited the scene expressed shock and outrage on the killing and referred to as for swift investigations and justice.
Parliament Speaker Moses Wetang’ula described the MP as a “fearless and distinguished” legislator, calling his taking pictures “devastating”.
Have been represented the Kasipul constituency in western Kenya as a member of the Orange Democratic Motion, led by veteran politician Raila Odinga.
In his assertion, Odinga condemned the killing, saying the legislator was “mercilessly and in chilly blood, gunned down by an murderer”.
“We’ve got misplaced a gallant son of the soil!” Odinga added.
Odinga misplaced to President Ruto within the 2022 election and rejected the outcomes resulting from alleged irregularities.
The previous prime minister has since struck a political take care of Ruto which noticed some opposition members be part of cupboard in what’s referred because the “broad-based authorities”.
