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Kenya: DCI Questions 3 Rift Valley Legislators Over Odinga Stoning

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Nakuru — Three politicians from the North Rift were on Sunday grilled for five hours by officers at the Rift Valley Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in Nakuru, to shed light on the disquieting attack of Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga last Friday in Soy Constituency.

Kapseret lawmaker Oscar Sudi and his Soi counterpart Caleb Kosirany arrived at the DCI offices a few minutes to 1 pm for questioning alongside Uasin Gishu County Assembly Speaker David Kiplangat for their roles in the planning and execution of violence meted on the ODM leader shortly after attending the burial of his longtime friend Joseph Kibor at his home.

In the attack, Raila’s aircraft was stoned by rowdy youths who are suspected to have been acting at the behest of senior politicians affiliated to the Kenya Kwanza Coalition in the region.

Police have since arrested seventeen people believed to have participated in the attack and are going on with investigations for leads to the masterminds of the attack which has since sent shockwaves across the Kenya Kwanza Coalition and the Azimio La Umoja political divides.

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has retained mobile phones belonging to the three lawmakers for forensic audit as the investigations proceed.

In what appeared to be a display of solidarity with the beleaguered politicians, Politicians allied with the Kenya kwanza coalition in Nakuru rose to the defense of the three embattled politicians saying they are being persecuted for their radical political stance.