NASA co-principal Musalia Mudavadi addressing the media at Raila Odinga's private office in Upperhill, Nairobi on Monday. Police has denied raiding NASA's tallying centre on Friday. [Citizen Digital] Nairobi police boss Japheth Koome has rubbished reports of a raid at NASA tallying centre at Sifa towers.NASA claimed armed police officers raided the premises on Friday night, held staff and took away equipment, something Koome has denied according to the Star.The head of Raila Odinga's presidential legal team, Paul Mwangi, had said that a raid was ongoing, a claim also backed by Machakos Senator Johnson Muthama and Norman Magaya, the Nasa chief executive officer."A few minutes to 8pm Friday, police in hoods and armed with AK47 and machine guns raided different offices that host operations of the Opposition National Super Alliance and held staff, mostly young university and college students on internship, hostage, forcing them to lie on the floor for hours then took away all their equipment," said Raila's spokesman Dennis Onyango through a statement.He added: "The raiders also broke down and ferried away surveillance cameras, desktop computers, computer servers, Ipads and laptops in addition to taking photos of the identification documents of all the staff."People at the scene, however, said they had not seen any signs of a raid at the premises.

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