The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has directed Pokot North MP David Pkosing, who was arrested on Thursday on an allegation of bankrolling banditry in Northern Kenya and later released, to report back at the DCI headquarters on Friday by 4 pm.


Pkosing was arrested on Thursday night at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) allegedly because he posted bail for seven suspected Pokot bandits and ferried them from the Kitale Law Courts to Pokot in a chopper.

However, Pkosing denied the allegations and claimed the seven individuals were owners of the over 200 heads of cattle that bandits killed while they were checking on their cattle.

Despite posting their bail, Pkosing denied ever meeting the suspected bandits and only offered to help them because they came from his community.

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The legislator was interrogated for five hours before being released and On Friday morning, the legislator also visited the DCI headquarters.

While addressing the media after his release on Thursday night at around 10:30 pm, Pkosing expressed his surprise at his arrest, saying he had never been at loggerheads with the law and had never even recorded a statement in his life.


The MP said he did not even know the names of the suspects and maintained that the suspects were innocent and that was the reason even released them on bond.

“I am surprised that I have been arrested because as I posted the bond for the young men from Masol, Pokot and who were condemned as criminals and therefore were not supposed to be released on bond. I do not even know their names, I have never met them,” Pkosing said.

“What I know is that they’re innocent boys, and that is why the court had seen it fit to release them on bond.”

Pkosing emphasised he loves peace and was even in the Peace and Justice Commission before becoming an MP.

“I am a peaceful person, I was in the peace and justice commission before I became an MP. Everyone knows that and I have never recorded a police statement anywhere in my life,” Pkosing said.

Pkosing and his lawyer Danstan Omari alleged the MP’s arrest was politically instigated as a Cabinet Secretary called Omari and warned him that Pkosing would suffer.


“The issue in this matter is that Mheshimiwa was warned by a Cabinet Secretary that he will be arrested; that is not the way, because the CS has no mandate at all to arrest. Article 244/245 gives the Inspector General of Police absolute power to arrest; he only takes direction pursuant to Article 157 from the Director of Public Prosecutions. That is why Mheshimiwa’s arrest was a political witch-hunt,” Omari said.

“I think there are people who are pushing this matter because there is someone who called me yesterday and told me Pkosing will suffer." 

Omari vowed to reveal the identity of the CS who called him on Friday.