Embakasi West Member of Parliament Mark Mwenje, on Thursday, April 6, claimed his life was in danger after three people were shot during an altercation with a crowd at a swimming pool in Umoja One estate.
While speaking to the media, Mwenje recounted that an armed group of 50 youth attacked him when he visited the swimming pool on Wednesday, April 5.
His security guard, he alleged, was forced to open fire to disperse the crowd.
According to the Jubilee party lawmaker, he was in the area in readiness for the disbursement of bursaries.
Consequently, he reported the matter to the Buruburu Police Station, which launched investigations into the incident.
Mwenje also urged Speaker Moses Wetangula and Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome to intervene in the case and beef us his security even as investigations continue.
'I was almost killed, and my life is in danger right now. People came holding guns and wielding knives, and they were a group of 50 people. They would have finished me.," he stated.
Following the incident, Mwenye's bodyguard was disarmed and arraigned at the Makadara Law Court.
He was released on a Ksh100,000 cash bail.
The main cause of the altercation was yet to be established, even as some residents claimed that the constituency administrators were planning on pulling down some business structures set up next to the swimming pool.
"The MPs team were planning on demolishing structures at Umoja One swimming pool, and the boys went there to save a crying lady. Unfortunately, my son was shot by the bodyguard," Millicent Odhiambo, a mother, claimed.
Odhiambo's son was shot in the neck and the stomach and rushed to the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH), where he was admitted.
