Court releases MCA Grace Nduta on Sh300,000 bail

Kanyenya-ini MCA Grace City Nduta.

The court has released Kanyenyaini Ward MCA Grace Nduta, Juja CDF Chairman Peter Kiratu, and two others on a bond of Sh1 million or a cash bail of Sh300,000 each, pending investigations into their alleged involvement in the staged abduction of MP George Koimburi.

Magistrate Caroline Nyaguthii Mugo ruled that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) had not presented compelling reasons to justify detaining the suspects.

The magistrate also barred the four either by themselves, through proxies or agents from contacting key witnesses, including MP Koimburi, until the ongoing investigations are concluded.

Additionally, the accused have been ordered to report to DCI detectives once a week.

The DCI had requested to detain Nduta and her co-accused for 15 days to conduct investigations into their connection with the alleged staged abduction of the MP.

In an affidavit presented before the Milimani Law Courts, Chief Inspector Nicholas Njoroge of the DCI Headquarters Operations Support Unit, alleged that MCA Nduta, Kiratu, alongside David Macharia Gatana and Cyrus Kieru Muhia, orchestrated the kidnapping of the MP "with the intent to murder," and misled police by providing false information about the incident.

"The respondents were arrested on May 28, 2025, and are being held at Capitol Hill, Industrial Area, and Muthaiga Police Stations in connection with kidnapping in order to murder, creating a disturbance, and giving false information to a public officer," the affidavit states.

Inspector Njoroge has urged the Magistrate Caroline Nyanguthii Mugo to allow them to continue holding the suspects to remain in custody while investigations are finalized.

"The allegations are serious, involving a sitting Member of Parliament, and the motive behind the alleged abduction remains unclear," he noted.

The case was first reported by Kiratu on May 25 at Mugutha Police Station.

The court heard that Kiratu in the report to the police claims that MP Koimburi had been abducted by two unknown men who has their faces concealed in blue masks and driven away in a Subaru Forester shortly after attending a church service at the Full Gospel Ebenezer Church in Muguth which has ended at 1400 hours and his whereabouts remain unknown.

"Koimburi was reportedly bundled into a vehicle, registration KDQ 803B, which upon investigation was revealed to be KDG 803B a car registered to the third respondent, Cyrus Kieru," Njoroge told the court.