A Baringo County MCA, Nelson Lotela, is nursing injuries after a heated debate at the assembly turned into a fight over the fate of the county public service board.
Totela was hospitalised on Wednesday morning after three of his colleagues reportedly beat him up after they differed on the disbandment of county public service board.
Lotela, who is the Silale Ward Rep, was assaulted by the leaders as he supported the motion to disband the board and create a new one.
Lotela and the three other MCAs, all elected on KANU party tickets, disagreed on whom they would have on the new public service board. Jubilee Party had already nominated their member to the board and were awaiting KANU's nominee.
This is the second time Mr Lotela was making it to the news this year. Two months ago, the Baringo politician was abducted and later found in Nakuru at a maize plantation.
The suspects in the abduction dropped him at a farm in Rongai area. Lotela narrated how the attackers drove past him before blocking him and forcing his driver to stop the car.
He claimed that four armed men emerged from the car and attacked him. In his account, Lotela revealed that the attackers asked him whether he was a spokesperson for the Pokot community before accusing him of ‘blocking an operation’.
He added the abductors drove him into a forest and informed him that they were “doing what they were told to do.”
Members of the public discovered him near the maize farm and took him to Kabarak University Hospital where he was treated and discharged.
