Kisii UDA senator candidate Joash Maangi has claimed police stormed his Ogembo residence on Monday at dawn on suspicion that stuffing of ballot papers was ongoing there.
The move, the outgoing Kisii deputy governor said, was a calculated scheme meant to intimidate them hours to the election.
But subcounty police commander Christine Amaya termed the reports by Maangi as "fiction."
"There is no officer from my station who has raided his residence. What you are telling me is pure fiction,” she told the Star on the phone.
However, Maangi maintained officers raided his home and that workers were told that some ballot stuffing was being done there.
He said they entered the kraal and the chicken coop and found nothing before they retreated.
Maangi said he was not in during the raid.
In separate press conferences in Ogembo and downtown Kisii, the deputy governor accused the police of being used to intimidate UDA candidates in the region.
He said he has reported the incident to officers in Ogembo for them to probe.
"I am a law-abiding citizen and never known for such acts before and in the foreseeable future,” Maangi told journalists.
Maangi was joined by UDA governor candidate Ezekiel Machogu, who condemned the incident.
"We are on the cusp of a momentous poll on Tuesday and it reeks of malice for security agents to be used to conduct illegal raids on people’s homes. I condemn this and ask our officers to be professional as they execute their mandate,” he said.
The two were flanked by his running mate Migosi Ogamba and woman rep candidate Teresa Bitutu.
