2 UDA MPs & Close Gachagua Allies Speak After Arrest Over Claims of Sponsoring Protests

2 UDA MPs & Close Gachagua Allies Speak After Arrest Over Claims of Sponsoring Protests

2 UDA MPs & Close Gachagua Allies Speak After Arrest Over Claims of Sponsoring Protests: Two Members of Parliament affiliated with the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) were on Wednesday released by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) after two days of grilling.

The duo were released after interrogation over their alleged involvement in sponsoring the recent anti-government demos.

According to reports, the two were arrested on Monday evening while spending time near a hotel within the Nairobi Central Business District (CBD).

The two, Embakasi North MP James Gakuya and his Embakasi Central counterpart, Benjamin Gathiru, were asked to disclose their source of wealth.

Speaking to the press after their release, the two MPs who are also close allies to Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua claimed that their arrest is a political witch-hunt.

“Anybody with any evidence or fact of whatever misdeed we did should come out and tell us how we finance the protests. This is a witch hunt,” Gakuya commented.

Gakuya and Gathiru were part of the five Gachagua allies grilled over their alleged participation in causing havoc anti-government demonstrations

“They also questioned us on whether we were buying T-shirts and water which I believe is just political,” Gathiru added.

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