- Kagombe had told police he is still being treated in a hospital after he was attacked in the chaos.
- One man shot and killed while a second one is nursing wounds in hospital.
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Gatundu South Member of Parliament Gabriel Kagombe was Friday arrested ahead of his planned arraignment.
Police said they arrested him in Kileleshwa, Nairob and he was driven and locked up at the Kamukunji police cells.
"He has been hiding since the incident took place, and police officers were able to locate him in his hiding place today, in Kileleshwa," Dr Resila Onyango National Police Service Spokesperson said.
Detectives at the DCI said they traced and arrested the MP to process him for plea-taking over the alleged fatal shooting of a man in Thika, Kiambu county, on May 17.
“He will take a plea probably on Monday, June 3,” said an officer aware of the incident.
Police had earlier tried to register the case at Kiambu law courts to enable them to get a warrant to arrest him in vain.
Two Members of Parliament are among the people who were grilled by detectives investigating the fatal shooting.
Gatundu North MP Elijah Njoroge and his Thika Town counterpart Alice Ng’ang’a were summoned for questioning over the chaos.
They appeared before the DCI homicide detectives and denied opening the fatal fire.
They were informed the team was investigating murder and causing bodily harm in the case.
They were asked to surrender their licenced weapons for testing, police said.
Kagombe had told police he was still being treated in a hospital after he was attacked in the chaos.
One man was shot and killed while a second one is nursing wounds in a hospital.
During the incident at the site of a proposed market in Kamenu ward, 26-year-old David Nduati was shot dead while another man Anthony Kamau, was seriously injured by a bullet that lodged in his chest.
Kagombe is a licenced gun holder. Spent cartridges collected from the scene, the bullet head in the deceased man’s body and the one lodged in the hospital helped in establishing the one who shot.
The incident prompted a protest in the town days later with the group calling for action on those responsible for the shooting.
Lawlessness reigned in Thika Town on May 17, when alleged supporters of the area MP Alice Ng’ang’a and those of Kamenu MCA Peter Mburu clashed.
The MPs had been at a different event in the area when they decided to accompany their colleague Nganga to the proposed market site.
They, however, found the MCA at the site with a group of residents who had already subdivided the parcel of land in anticipation of ownership of market spaces.
This sparked a violent clash with bullets fired.
Area Assistant County Commissioner Philomena Nzioki was also injured in the melee and treated at Avenue Hospital in Thika and later discharged.