Police in Nakuru are investigating an incident in which Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development CAS Kimani Ngunjiri is alleged to have shot and wounded a man in a land tussle in Subukia Constituency.
Ngunjiri is said to have been disarmed by police after the shooting as the rown over a half-acre land in Kwa Tom Village pitting the CAS against a 60-year-old woman turned nasty.
He is said to have wielded his pistol and fired a bullet hitting a passerby amid claims by the woman, Susan Murugi, that he invaded her land with a group of youth at 6am on Monday.
Murugi claims her daughter also attempted to interpose in the land tussle that had gotten heated and threatened to get out of hand but she also sustained injuries in the ugly fracas.
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When her son heard the commotion, he came to his mother’s rescue brandishing an axe, it is then that the CAS allegedly fired his gun amid attempts by his bodyguard to restrain him.
Lucas Onyango maintains that he was not part of the land tussle between Ngunjiri and Murugi and was just passing by when the bullet hit and wounded him on his shoulder.
However, Ngunjiri maintain that he acted in self-defence in the land dispute that had dragged on for years.
Onyango was taken to Bahati Sub-County hospital in Nakuru County where he was treated and later discharged to recuperate from home.
This is not the first time he is finding himself in trouble with the law as he was charged with assaulting a traffic policewoman in Nakuru Town while serving as the Bahati MP in 2013.
He was at the time arraigned before Nakuru Resident Magistrate Ruth Amwai and charged with six counts, including flouting traffic laws and disobeying orders from a police officer.
In November 2021, Ngunjiri vowed to sue then Environment CS Keriako Tobiko for linking him to the murder of conservationist Joannah Stutchbury on July 16, 2021 outside her residence after she successfully blocked the rehabilitation of a road inside Kiambu Forest.
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