We're ready for you - Sudi, Kositany tell DCI over Raila attack

The two are expected to appear before Nakuru DCI from 1pm.

In Summary

• Sudi said he will avail himself at the Rift Valley DCI Regional coordinator at 1pm.

• Soy MP Caleb Kositany blamed the authorities of failing to do their due diligence in investigating the incident.

Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi at a past event.
Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi at a past event.
Image: FILE

Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi has said that he is ready to face the Directorate of Criminal Investigations after he was summoned over attacks on ODM leader Raila Odinga's chopper.

Speaking on Sunday, Sudi said he will avail himself at the Rift Valley DCI Regional coordinator at 1 pm.

"I will be available in Nakuru at 1o'clock and I am ready for you guys... I will go there and write that statement," he said. 

The MP noted that he leads a cosmopolitan constituency in the region and he knows well the consequences of violence.

"I cannot organise violence, I know the consequences of violence and I have been talking about it. I lead a cosmopolitan constituency and it cannot even cross my mind," Sudi said.

On Saturday, the DCI named Soy MP Caleb Kositany, Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi and Uasin Ngishu county speaker David Kiplagat as the main planners and funders of the violence meted on the ODM leader.

They were also summoned to appear before the regional coordinator on Sunday at 9am.

"Preliminary investigations indicate that the chaos was organized and coordinated by  Soy MP Caleb Kositany, Kapsaret MP Oscar Sudi, and David Kiplagat, speaker of Uasin Gishu County Assembly," DCI said.

Sudi in his statement said he was not around when the incident occurred.

He also rubbished it as a move by their political competition to provoke them. 

"This is politics but it will end," Sudi said.

Soy MP Caleb Kositany blamed the authorities of failing to do their due diligence in investigating the incident.

He claimed that they relied on Suna East MP Junet Mohamed's allegations that they were the ones who planned the violence against meted on them.

"What is happening in this country is very said. There is a super investigator called Junet Mohamed who can investigate an incident within 10 minutes and have evidence with names of perpetrators," Kositany said.

As of Saturday, police had arrested 17 people accused of hurling stones at Raila's chopper, who were helping with investigations.

Those arrested were found in possession of money in Sh50 denominations.

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