A member of the National Assembly, on Monday, September 23, caused chaos at a police station after discovering that a miraa (khat) consignment that had been seized was missing.
The MP, Kabinga Wachira (Mwea), put Mwea West OCPD John Onditi to the task to explain why the miraa had been offloaded from a lorry that was transporting it.
He further argued that the drugs were supposed to be kept at the station until the case was solved but that particular station had contravened that procedure.
The lorry carrying the khat, classified by the Ministry of Health as a drug, was impounded after being involved in an accident at Makutano Trading Center where a boda boda rider was killed.
“We agreed that all detained vehicles transporting miraa should be held at the police station until the case is solved. It is shocking to me that the Sagana police officers have released the miraa and left the lorry empty,” the furious MP stated.
The police, in their defence, maintained that they would continue arresting miraa transporters caught flouting traffic rules.
There has been an increase in the number of accident's caused by miraa transporters along the Kirinyaga route.
So dire was the situation that area elders have been meeting to forge a way forward on how to deal with the menace.
The Mwea legislator's act goes into a long list of bold moves by MP's to confront law enforcement officers for flouting procedures.
In November 2018, Sigor MP Peter Lochakapong and his Pokot South counterpart David Pkosing stormed Eldoret Police Station demanding the release of a murder suspect.
The legislators from West Pokot County wanted to secure the release of a suspect who was arrested in connection with a recent killing along the boundary of West Pokot and Elgeyo Marakwet Counties.
