Gatuanyaga MCA-Elect in hideout, claims his life is in danger.
Gatuanyaga MCA-Elect Joseph Kahira Wambui claims that his
life is in danger. Kahira has consequently appealed to the authorities to
provide him with security.
Speaking to journalists from his hiding place, Kahira
(pictured) said that his ordeal started on the night of Tuesday the 8th
immediately after Kenyans went to the ballot to vote for their preferred candidates.
He said that that unknown men have been trailing him in several
vehicles at his home in Gatuanyaga at night, raising fears that they are out to
no good.
“For the past few days, there are vehicles which have been
trailing me everywhere I go. The first time we noticed some suspicious activity
was the night of Tuesday after the vote. My younger brother told me that 3
people came in a saloon car through the rear gate to our compound and went
straight to my house. After searching for some time he heard one of them tell
his colleagues that I was not there. Immediately after that, they left without
saying a word or letting anyone know of their presence,” explained the visibly worried
MCA.
He added that the following night at exactly 10:04pm, three
vehicles got into the compound and some men went straight to his house and
knocked. Luckily for him, no one was in as he had shifted his family to a different
location and he was, at the time, at his mother’s house which is just within
the same compound.
“I peeped from the window and saw a tall guy in a cap trying
to access my house. After several attempts to get in, he along with his
colleagues just left. This time I didn’t get to know how many they were,” he
said.
He then called a friend and narrated to him of this second
incident and both agreed that it was wise that he left the compound. His friend
came for him after an hour and whisked him away to his hideout.
Kahira says that they have not been able to establish the
identity of the vehicles or the people involved since all this happening at
night and it was dark when this occurred. He added that he too is yet to
establish their motive.
He has since reported the matter at the Thika CID offices
under OB No. 39/12/8/17.
“I would like police to get to the bottom of the matter by
investigating to know who these people are and the motive behind their actions.
I also appealed for police protection as I fear that my life and that of my
family is really in danger, he said.
26 year old Kahira beat all odds to win the Gatuanyaga Ward
seat on a Maendeleo Chap Chap Party ticket against the strong Jubilee Party
wave that swept all the other four MCA seats in Thika Town Constituency.
Kahira garnered 4 769 votes (49.07%) ahead of Jubilee’s
Cecilia Wamaitha Mwangi who got 3 589 votes (36.93%).
Kahira is a hawker who trades on coffee drinks around Muguga
area. He says that he has been in this business for the last 6 years.
“Hawking coffee has been my only source of livelihood for
the last six years. It feeds my family and was my source of school fees in both
secondary school and in college,” he says.
His younger brother also depend on him for fees, courtesy of
the same business. He is the second-born in a family of four. Their single
mother, who currently does not have any stable job, also depend on him for her
daily bread.
Kahira is a certificate holder in Business Management and hopes
to prove to other young people that anything is possible if only one focused in
achieving their set goals in life.
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