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The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) now wants Kanyenyaini Ward MCA Grace Nduta, Juja CDF Chairman Peter Kiratu, and two others detained in custody for 15 days pending probe into connection with the alleged staged abduction of MP George Koimburi.
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.
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