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Gatundu South MP used excessive force and was not acting in self-defence when he used his firearm during the May 17 fracas in Thika, preliminary investigations by de-tectives indicate.

A ballistic analysis of all the firearms surrendered by all the firearm holders present during the melee has also shown that the fatal bullet that killed a boda boda rider was shot from MP Kagombe’s firearm.

Kagombe, who is expected to be arraigned this morning was arrested from his hideout in Nairobi’s Kileleshwa on Friday after the detectives from the Directorate of Crim-inal Investigations (DCI) concluded their investigations.

A senior DCI officer said he is likely to be charged with murder and misuse of firearm at the Kiambu Law courts today.

Detectives say Kagombe, a licenced firearm holder, is likely to face murder charges on Monday at the Kiambu Law Courts.

MP Kagombe had attended a ceremony to launch the construction of a market in Thika when chaos erupted between supporters of Thika MP Alice Wahome and Kamenu Member of County Assembly (MCA) Peter Mburu. The meeting was also attended by Majority Leader in the National Assembly Kimani Ichung’wah and Gatundu North MP Elijah Njoroge Kururia.

Victim shot dead

During the fracas, David Nduati, 26, was shot dead and another person, Anthony Kamau, was seriously injured by a bullet that lodged in his chest.

Area Assistant County Commissioner Philomena Nzioki was also injured in the melee.

After the incident, Kagombe rushed to hospital where he was admitted after he claimed that he had been injured.

The DCI detectives immediately launched investigations and ordered all firearm holders who were present during the fracas to surrender them for analysis at the DCI headquarters.

They also recovered spent cartridges collected at the scene and also the bullet head in the deceased man’s body and the one lodged in the hospital.

The National Police Service spokesperson Dr Resila Onyango confirmed the arrest and said he will be arraigned this morning.

“He has been hiding since the incident took place but detectives managed to locate him in his hiding place in Kileleshwa on Friday,” she said.

Video reviews

The decision to arrest Kagombe was arrived at after reviews of videos taken during the incident, eyewitness accounts and forensic analyses.

Among those grilled and their statements recorded are the Gatundu North MP Elijah Njoroge and his Thika Town counterpart Alice Ng’ang’a.

The ugly incident at the site of a proposed market in Kamenu ward happened after the MPs who had been at a different event in the area decided to accompany their col-league Nganga to the proposed market site.

At the site, they found the MCA with a group of residents who had already subdivided the parcel of land in anticipation of ownership of market spaces. As a result, vio-lence erupted and bullets were fired.

Kiambu governor Kimani Wamatangi has however said the chaos was a plot on his life by some of the lawmakers targeting him politically as feuding over the construc-tion of markets intensified.

Wamatangi said there have been previous attempts to harm him, and in some instances, plan chaos and link it to him.

“It beats logic why a leader should draw his gun and shoot unarmed people, yet these are the same people who elect us to positions of power,” he said.