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Lawmaker, three others killed in Nairobi shooting
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Unknown gunmen killed four people, including a lawmaker, in Kenyan capital Nairobi early Saturday.
Nicholas Kamwende, Head of Nairobi Criminal Investigation Department, said legislator George Muchai, his two bodyguards and a driver were sprayed with bullets at about 3:00 a.m. when their vehicle slowed down in the city centre. He said all the four occupants died on their seats in a Toyota Fortuner vehicle.
"The attackers seem to have trailed the victims from Westlands to the scene where the shooting happened. We are yet to know the motive," Kamwende told journalists.
Eyewitnesses at the scene say the car was sprayed with bullets by men in a private car whose number plates were concealed. Witnesses said the gunmen fired about ten bullets before Muchai went for two pistols that the bodyguards had in a briefcase that was in the car. Muchai's gun was found on his holster. He was a licensed gun holder.
Muchai, who joined Parliament in 2013, sits in the State institution as a representative of Central Organization of Trade Unions, an umbrella workers body.
Kenya has grappled with a security breakdown in recent years as cases of armed robberies, kidnappings and murder in cities and rural villages reached a crisis level. Crime has surged to record levels in Nairobi and its environs as armed gangsters raid homes and business premises.
Analysts have regretted that run-away crime has spiked in the light of influx of small arms, weak policing and indifference by members of the public who rarely report criminals in their midst.
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