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A Nairobi nominated MCA is worried over death threats if she fails to quit politics.
Mercy Kariuki has recorded statements twice at Ongata Rongai Police after men on a motorcycle trailed her for days and later dropped death threat notices at her home.
She has been given two choices: Quit politics or face death.
Mercy, who has written to House Speaker Alex ole Magelo to assist her, told The Nairobian that “Whenever I go home, a motorbike with two men on board and number plates covered stalks me up to my gate.
But on November 20, we found dozens of papers thrown into my compound with threat messages and insults.”
Mercy has a home in Rongai, Kajiado County, where she says she has supported schools and women groups as she has done in several wards in Nairobi.
“I have given books and shoes to schools in the area as well empowering women and youth groups there and in several city wards.
I do it out of a good heart but now I can’t tell if it is a colleague in Nairobi or an MCA from Kajiado who is scared of my assistance to needy persons in their wards,” she told this writer.
The distressed MCA said she was not interested in Kajiado politics and has not indicated intentions of vying in Nairobi.
