Kenyan police launch manhunt for MP who shot rival’s aide dead at polling station

GOOBJOOG NEWS|NAIROBI: Police in Kenya have launched a manhunt for a Member of Parliament identified as Didmus Wekesa Barasa following a shooting incident at a polling station that left a rival’s aide dead.

The Member of Parliament for Kimilili is said to be the prime suspect in a shooting incident that left a security guard of his closest rival, Mr Brian Khaemba of DAP-K party, dead. 

Witnesses claim the now run-away MP shot the man on the forehead during an altercation just outside a polling station in Bungoma county, the western part of Kenya.

Speaking to Kenyan local media, Bungoma County Commissioner Samuel Kimiti said a manhunt for the MP was underway, and called on anyone having any information of his whereabouts to alert the police.