Nyando MP calls on govt to step up security after murder of city lawyer Kyalo Mbobu
By Arnold Ngure, September 11, 2025Nyando MP Jared Okello has urged the government to step up security following the brazen daylight murder of renowned city lawyer Kyalo Mbobu along Magadi Road on September 9, 2025.
Speaking during a live TV interview on Thursday, September 11, 2025, Okello indicated that it was the duty of the government to protect its citizens, and that the failure of the systems to determine such cases emboldens perpetrators.
“It behoves the government to protect the citizens; we would not want to see our security systems sliding back to failure, because if it does, then there is no hope from any quarters,” Okello said.
Take matter seriously
“If that happens, people would be very fearful to live, yet we need not to live in fear. We hope that the Inspector General of Police, the DCI, and any other investigative agency will take this matter seriously,” he added.
“We have had such murders before, and we don’t see the end of their investigations. This gives the assassins and their sponsors more impetus to do ills to the Kenyan people. We need to secure convictions of people who engage in such acts.”
Kyalo Mbobu was shot dead along Magadi Road, near the junction at Galleria, as he was heading to his home in Karen.
Preliminary reports indicate that the lawyer was accosted by assailants riding on a motorcycle, who opened fire on him before fleeing the scene of the crime as motorists watched in shock.
The city lawyer was driving his Land Cruiser vehicle at the time of the brazen murder, and detectives spent significant time processing the crime scene for leads, hours after the fatal shooting.
Towering legal mind
Kyalo Mbobu has been in the legal practice for 30 years and has been a lecturer at the University of Nairobi, where his contributions to criminal law have been well-documented.
Lawyers are expected to stage a purple-ribbon match today as they pile pressure on the investigative agencies to expedite the probe into the killers.