Lawyer: Police raid at Malala home illegal

Stephen Chacha, the Kakamega Central DCI head, who led the contingent of police officers conducting the raid, said the former senator was a person of interest in election-related violence witnessed during the Kakamega governor polls held on Monday.

Malala, who was vying on a United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party ticket, lost the election - which had been postponed from August 9 when the General Election was held - to Fernandes Barasa of the Orange Democratic Movement.

Chacha and the regional police boss Peris Kimani said they just wanted Malala to clear his name but he ignored them.

"He had been summoned to the station from Wednesday. The officers investigating his case talked to his lawyer and even called him but he is defiant," said Ms Kimani.

"I appeal to him to surrender to the nearest police station as soon as he can."

A section of police officers who conducted the raid. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

He said his son was still healing from the loss of becoming Kakamega governor and should be left alone.

He feared that the arrest was politically motivated and they just want to harass his son "for no reason."

The raid started at about 1pm and lasted for about two hours before it started raining and the police officers, journalists and the crowd of onlookers left.