Kagombe: Video Of Gatundu South MP Shooting Indiscriminately At Crowd In Thika Emerges

• One person was killed and another seriously injured in Thika on Friday, May 17, after supporters of MP Alice Ng'ang'a clashed with those of Kamenu MCA Peter Mburu
• Report filed at Thika Police Station claims Gatundu South MP Gabriel Gathuka Kagombe shot at protesters indiscriminately
• A viral video has emerged showing the exact moment the first time MP brandished his gun and shot at the crowd

Amos Khaemba, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

Kiambu - Police in Kiambu county are investigating a shooting incident that left one person dead and others injured in Thika.

Why Gabriel Kagombe shot at protesters

Gatundu South MP Gabriel Kagombe is accused of shooting at a crowd on Friday, May 17, after supporters of MP Alice Ng'ang'a and Kamenu MCA Peter Mburu clashed.

According to the police report, Kagombe, who was among the lawmakers accompanying Ng'ang'a, shot indiscriminately at the protesters.

“During the melee, one GG Kagombe, MP Gatundu South, shot indiscriminately towards the MCA’s group. During the incident, one David Nduati aged 26 years was fatally injured after being shot as the bullet exited the chest," a police report seen by TUKO.co.ke read.

As police investigate the incident, a video has emerged capturing the first-term MP shooting the crowd.

In the video seen by TUKO.co.ke, Kagombe, dressed in a white shirt and trousers, brandished his pistol before starting to shoot indiscriminately at the protesters.

After the shooting, the MP returned his gun to the waist of his trousers, and the protesters charged at him.

Why did Alice Ng'ang'a and MCA quarrel?

As reported earlier, the fracas ensued in the area after three members of parliament faced off with Mburu and his supporters over the launch of a market project.

Thika Town MP Alice Ng'ang'a, while in the company of her counterparts from Kikuyu (Kimani Ichung'wah) and Gatundu South (Gabriel Kagombe), claimed credit for the Kiganjo market to the opposition of the area MCA.

What appeared to be a regular verbal exchange between the MPs' group and that of the MCA escalated to a display of a gun incident as both parties were determined to camp on the tract that would host the market.

Ng'ang'a and her company asked the MCA and his team, who were erecting structures on the grounds, to vacate the place, but to no avail.

Proofreading by Otukho Jackson, a multimedia journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke