Moses Kuria ahead as Gatundu South awaits official tally

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria.
Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria.

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has maintained an early lead as counting continues in Kiambu county.

As at 12 pm on Wednesday, Kuria had garnered 24,578, followed

by Joyce Ngugi with 7,572.

Kungu Kibathi got 4,560, Joseph Njoroge garnered 701 and Joseph Warui got 351.

The results were compiled by party agents.

The county is yet to release the official results.

On Tuesday, Kuria cursed on national TV after he was asked about the chaos that marred primaries in the constituency on Tuesday.

This was after a NTV journalist asked Kuria what was his take on the issues that characterised the polls staged to elect a Jubilee candidate for August 8.

"Every wrong done here in Gatundu is by Moses Kuria. F*** you," he said before walking away from the journalist.

The legislator, on his Facebook page, wrote a letter to the President Uhuru Kenyatta citing plans to rig him out of the Gatundu South MP race.

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Police were forced to fire in the air to disperse rowdy voters after they claimed that the deputy police commander had ballot papers in his possession.

The voters claimed that the commander had secured the ballot boxes and was planning to use them to rig in the incumbent Moses Kuria.

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On Friday last week, police arrested three suspects in a vehicle loaded with crude weapons.

The three were apprehended

in Ichaweri village

with wooden batons and slashers.

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