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Manyatta MP Gitonga Mukunji has broken his silence after an alleged police raid at his rural home, questioning the deployment of a large number of officers to his residence.

Manyatta MP Gitonga Mukunji has broken his silence after an alleged police raid at his rural home, questioning the deployment of a large number of officers to his residence.

In a brief statement on Sunday, September 13, Mukunji claimed that about 100 police officers had been stationed at the gate of his rural home from 6am.

"Mr. Murkomen the 100 police officers at my gate in my rural home from 6 am in the morning is really unnecessary," he said.

Mukunji argued that authorities could have summoned him to a police station instead of deploying a large contingent of officers to his home.

He criticised the alleged deployment as an inappropriate use of public resources.

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"I think there is a better way to use them. A simple summon to any police station is enough to me. This is pure misuse of taxpayers dollars," he added.

File image of Manyatta MP Gitonga Mukunji

Earlier Sunday, former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua had claimed that there is a plot to arest Mukunji following the violent clashes witnessed during a UDA meeting in Nembure, Embu County.

In a statement, Gachagua alleged that several police officers had surrounded Mukunji’s home with orders to arrest him over the chaos. 

The DCP Party leader accused Deputy President Kithure Kindiki and Embu Governor Cecily Mbarire of being behind the plan to arrest Mukunji. 

"The harassment of Hon. Gitonga Mukunji by Kithure Kindiki and Cecily Mbarire is unacceptable.

"Hundreds of policemen are surrounding his Embu home with orders to arrest him for the violent clashes between citizens and police yesterday in Embu," Gachagua claimed. 

The former DP also claimed that Kindiki had sent Mukunji a message on WhatsApp threatening to deal with him following the incident.

"Following the incident, Mr. Kindiki sent Hon Mukunji a WhatsApp message threatening to deal with him. Mr. Kithure Kindiki wants to use police to frame Hon. Mukunji as having sent goons to disrupt the meeting," he alleged.  

Further, Gachagua said he has mobilized lawyers to defend the Manyatta lawmaker if he is apprehended by the police. 

"I want to assure DCP supporters that I have mobilized our lawyers to defend Hon. Mukunji once arrested in church, where he will attend," he added.