Police are holding a former ward rep over an alleged employment extortion racket in which one of his alleged victims lost Sh600, 000.
County Police Commander Joseph Nthenge confirmed the arrest of the suspect from Rongo but declined to discuss details, saying it could jeopardise their investigations.
The former MCA is said to have been collecting money from unsuspecting job seekers promising to have them employed by the county government.
His luck finally ran out after a secondary school teacher, whom he had promised a job as a chief officer for Finance, discovered he had been conned.
The teacher went to Governor Okoth Obado seeking his employment letter.
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It was then that the job scam was exposed.
The victim said he had been sending money to the former MCA's phone number.
The former MCA would make him speak to a person he believed was Obado, only to realise much later he had been speaking with impostors.
