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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot
dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a
“targeted and premeditated” crime.
MP Charles Were was shot on Wednesday night after his car
stopped at a roundabout on a busy major road.
President Willian Ruto urged police to conduct a “through
investigation” and said Thursday that those responsible “must be
held to account.”
Were was in the company of his driver and bodyguard when a
motorcycle taxi approached their car, and a passenger
disembarked and approached their car before firing at the MP,
police said in a statement.
The legislator was reelected in 2022 to represent Kasipul
constituency in western Kenya for the Orange Democratic Movement
party.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga described Were as a “gallant son
of the soil.”
Odinga was President Ruto’s main challenger in the 2022 general
election.
Political tensions in Kenya have simmed down since last year,
when the country saw a series of opposition-backed
anti-government protests during which dozens of people died.
Ruto later appointed members of Odinga’s party to the cabinet
and the two leaders signed a political pact in March this year.
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