I warned Nyatike MP Anyanga of looming attack- Ugandan ‘journalist’

 Felix Adua(left) claims that he had warned Nyatike MP Edick Anyanga days before the lawmaker was attacked

Dressed in a bright blue suit, white shirt and a matching tie, Felix Adua briskly walked into Parliament canteen and dropped a bombshell: Edick Anyanga, the Nyatike MP, was to be eliminated by a fellow MP who is a member of the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC), that has since been disbanded.

The tall, dark slender man allegedly from Uganda looked troubled as he fiddled with his expensive phones.

“I’m a journalist, and I have come to warn this man because he is a good person,” he said his voice shaky. “You need to report this fellow MP and party stalwart to the police,” he said as he stepped out of the scene.

 A week later, Edick Omondi Anyanga was reportedly accosted by gun-totting individuals who assaulted him with the butt of a gun and left him for dead at his gate.

The MP was later rushed to hospital where he was admitted for several days.

Adua now claims his life is in danger. Speaking to The Nairobian, he said he has been receiving text messages and calls from anonymous numbers, warning him that his days are numbered.

“Somebody has sent messages threatening to eliminate me for exposing their plans to kill Nyatike MP Omondi Anyanga,” Adua said and named a prominent Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) politician as being behind the plot.

“I will not be intimidated or cowed by anybody. I will never keep quiet when people plot to kill others,” he said.

He showed The Nairobian one of the alleged threatening messages, which he claims he has forwarded to the police. It read: “u think u can betray us? U have only few days left 4 u. You think Anyanga is your God? Lets wait and see if he come for your rescue by the time we are squeezing u.”

The matter, he says, is being investigated by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and he is optimistic an arrest will be made soon.

Adua says he is a journalist working for an online magazine run by a Ugandan-based media company. He claims he constantly called the Nyatike MP to warn him before the legislator was attacked by balaclava-clad gunmen.

According to Adua, the former PAC member (name withheld) hatched the plan to  eliminate Adua because of their differences in running the committee.

“I attended a meeting where the plan was hatched, but after realising the purpose of the five-man gathering, I disagreed with the group and left,” claims Adua.

After the meeting,  the Ugandan man, who apparently wines and dines in five-star hotels and dons designer suits and watches, claims he called Anyanga and warned him to be extra vigilant since there were people seeking to assassinate him.

“I had never met Anyanga before, and I had to look for his number. I warned him on humanitarian grounds since I can never be party to murder,” Adua claims. “I warned him several times and even unknowingly called the day after the attack and it is then that he told me he was in hospital,” adds Adua.

The Nyatike MP confirmed that Adua, who has been in Kenya since last year December “doing a high-level security story,” called him several times including the day he was in hospital.

“The day the MP was attacked, I was in Arusha. I called him from there,” he claims. “Although I cannot reveal the identities of the gunmen who accosted him at his gate, I know the entire mission’s godfather is the PAC member (Adua dropped the name of the MP again). He is the same one who is threatening me.”

Adua says he has known the former PAC member who is allegedly after Anyanga, and that they have been friends from the time the said lawmaker was a minister in the coalition government.

“He was a very good pal of mine, but when the PAC controversy erupted, I took an interest to know what was going on,” he says.

Adua claims the MP accused Anyanga of being used by Jubilee to wage war against him, after which he declared, “the battle lines have been drawn.”

“I asked what he (the PAC member) meant, and what he wanted to do, at which point he declared, “I am going to wage war using every possible means to deal with Anyanga,” Adua alleges.