Police have launched a manhunt for Kasipul Member of Parliament Ong’ondo Were after two of his aides allegedly stabbed a teacher on Sunday night in a hotel near Oyugis town.
According to Homa Bay county CID boss Daniel Wachira, police are looking for the MP and his aides who took off after the incident.
Wachira said that the MP, who was allegedly present during the scuffle, allegedly escaped after his assistants, identified as Jerry Ouma and Lamon Okoth stabbed Mr. Kennedy Okong’o, a tutor at Omiro Vocational Training Institute.
POLICE HUNT for Kasipul MP Ongondo Were following a fracas in Homa Bay that left one of his aides dead and a TVET tutor stabbed.
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“Locals from the area who heard the commotion between the teacher and the MP’s allies came out to see what was happening. They started stoning the two men who had drove in with the MP,” he said.
According to reports, two men together with the MP are said to have gone to the said hotel at around 5 pm where they found Mr. Okong’o with some of his friends and attacked him with knives stabbing him severally in the stomach.
The said MP and his aides allegedly drove in to the hotel in a government vehicle before the incident.
Witnesses said that an argument erupted between the MP’s aides and the teacher after Mr Were alighted from the car and walked into the hotel’s upper rooms.
“They argued for a few minutes before the aides withdrew a knife and stabbed the teacher,” said a witness.
Mr Okong’o is said to have been an ardent supporter of the MP ahead of the 2017 General Election.
The teacher later withdrew his support for Mr Were for unknown reasons, which is thought to have angered the MP’s aides.
Mr Wachira added that his office has shared the vehicle’s registration number with other officers in other police stations so that they can interrogate either the driver or the MP to find out what happened.
“We just need to ask the MP and his driver to explain what they know. Mr Were should record statement at any police station near him,” the officer said.
One of the MP’s aides is said to have died in hospital after sustaining severe injuries.
“Mr Ouma died at the hospital past 9pm Sunday. His colleague is still undergoing medical care at same hospital. He is under tight security watch,” Mr Wachira told journalists on Monday.
The stabbed teacher on the other hand was rushed to a hospital in Kisii on Sunday.
Mr Wachira said he had sent his officers to look for the MP who could not be reached on phone.
Neither his driver nor the vehicle he used when the incident happened could be traced.
Residents castigated the MP after he was also accused to have been connected to another attack in Kisumu last week.
The incident is said to have happened on Thursday outside Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital where the MP is said to have differed with someone over a WhatsApp group.
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