Police officers in Siaya County have launched investigations against Alego Usonga lawmaker Samuel Atandi after claims arose that he might be connected to an attack on a Member of County Assembly (MCA).
Allegations arising indicate that the vocal lawmaker could have hired goons to attack nominated MCA Winnie Atieno on Friday night.
Atieno claimed that the armed goons deployed by Atandi attacked her alongside her colleagues and vandalized her car near Manicaland hotel in Alego on that night.
"There were four of us in the car when youths emerged from a nearby thicket and stoned our vehicle. We were lucky that they got scared by another car's departure from the hotel. They disappeared into the thicket,” she was quoted by the Nation.
Siaya County Police Commander Ambrose Mwawaka confirmed the saga and stated that it was reported at the Siaya Police Station under OB: 4/29/12/2018.
He added that the lawmaker is not new to such, hinting that their leads indicate that the group might have been ferried from as far as Nairobi county to come and perform that heinous act.
“The OCS is on the matter, we shall get to its root cause. It is not the first incident we have heard about the MP,” he said.
"Sometime back we launched a crackdown on the youth so they disappeared. We are following leads that some of them may be from Ruaraka in Nairobi and that they are hired to cause chaos here," added Mwawaka.
However, the lawmaker refused to comment on the issue when he was contacted for his side of the story.
"Don’t be a busybody. Go ask the police. Do not ask me about issues that do not concern me. Ask the investigators," he was quoted.