Alego Usonga Member of Parliament Samuel Atandi has taunted Nandi Governor Stephen Sang following his arrest.
Sang was nabbed by the Directorate of Investigations (DCI) officers in Kabsabet police station over allegations of destroying tea bushes at Kibwari tea estate over the weekend.
The county boss had arrived at the station to record a statement following rumours that he had gone into hiding after realizing detectives were looking for him.
Reacting to the story, Atandi described the governor as a 'leader without an agenda', following the dramatic event where he was captured on camera, using a power saw to clear tea bushes in the land he claims was grabbed from the public.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) legislator revisited the incident when Sang, a close ally of Deputy President William Ruto, linked his Mombasa counterpart Hassan Joho to drug trafficking and mocked him for apparent lack of focus.
"Yesterday, it was about Governor Joho, today it is uprooting of cash crops, I don't know reclaiming public land, signs of a leader without an agenda," Atandi tweeted.
Moments before he was arrested, the county boss had vowed not to back down in addressing the issue of land grabbing, despite what he termed as intimidation from people he did not disclose.
"We will not relent in the fight against corruption in Nandi County no matter what oppressors of justice use in trying to derail us from repossessing huge parcels of grabbed land in our county," Sang tweeted.