A number of politicians in Kakamega County have been summoned by the police in relation to the Matungu killings that have so far claimed 13 lives.
Residents in the area have raised alarm over an armed gang that has been brutally killing locals in the past month, with the murders being linked to the 14 and 42 brothers groups.
As part of the ongoing investigations, police in the area have summoned area politicians to come in and record statements.
So far seven suspects have been arrested in relation to the killings.
Kakamega County Commissioner Abdulrizak Jaldesa said that the police are investigating possibilities of the killers getting sponsorship from the political class.
“We are investigating the sponsors of these killings," said the police boss
Matungu Deputy County Commissioner Charles Charo seemed to contradict residents' suspicions that the criminal activities are organised by gangs out to terrorize Kenyans.
He said that the cases appear independently since some of the suspects have confessed to killing out of passion and not under the directive of their gang leaders.
“We want to dismiss the narrative that the killings we are witnessing in Matungu are coordinated and that there is a gang that is terrorising residents. We are investigating the cases separately after we established that they are not interwoven,” he said.
So far, seven suspects have been arrested in connection with the killings, among them a 34-year-old man thought to be the ring leader.