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Uhuru Kenyatta takes on Keter as MP risks losing seat over insults

Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter and nominated MP Sunjeev Birdi arrive at the CID Headquarters in Nairobi Sunday. [Photo:Boniface Okendo/Standard]

The political future of Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter is in the balance after President Uhuru Kenyatta backed his prosecution after the legislator was captured on video threatening officials over trucks impounded at the Gilgil weighbridge.

In the video, Mr Keter claimed State House Comptroller Lawrence Lenayapa had tried to intervene by calling the officials at the weighbridge but Lenayapa and President Kenyatta denied the allegation.

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