Manyatta MP Gitonga Mukunji arrested
Manyatta MP Gitonga Mukunji has been arrested.
Manyatta MP Gitonga Mukunji has been arrested.
According to Advocate Njiru Ndegwa, Mukunji was arrested at approximately 3PM on Monday, July 7, and was booked at Kibii Police Station at 3:53PM.
According to the lawyer, the MP was booked under occurrence book (OB) number 06/07/07/2025.
“The OCS has confirmed that he has been picked by the DCI Juja Police Station. His car is currently parked at Kibii Police Station. His whereabouts is not known,” Ndegwa said in a statement.
Ndegwa further noted that the OB entry at Kibii Police Station only captured Mukunji’s arrival but made no mention of his departure.
“The OCS has confirmed that he only booked him for the exclusive purpose of holding him. As I update this, I am in the company of his spouse. The police has withheld any useful information from his spouse and the advocates acting in the matter,” he added.
The arrest comes about two weeks after Embu Governor Cecily Mbarire called out Mukunji whom she accused of collaborating with former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
“Gachagua came here and he is using local leaders including Mukunji who is now his ‘spanner boy.’
“Let him not threaten me; I have this to tell Mukunji, you’ve only been in politics for 3 years, I have been in politics for 23 years and I want to tell you that the path you are taking is leading you to self-destruction,” she said.
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Mbarire had accused Gachagua of intimidation and interference in Embu County affairs.
Speaking in a press briefing on Thursday, June 26, she declared her refusal to be silenced, even daring Gachagua to harm her.
“I want to say this to one Rigathi Gachagua, I do not care how strong you may be but you will not intimidate me anymore. I will not stay silent, if you are God take my life today; the worst that can happen to me is dying and you only die once,” she said.
Mbarire questioned Gachagua’s political motives and criticized what she termed as attempts to gain control through coercion means.
“Why do you think you can get power through the back door? Why do you think that those of us who refused to listen to you do not matter? That it is only your way or no way? You cannot turn Embu County into a battlefield; you cannot claim to love the people of Embu and punish them at the same time,” she added.
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