Another MP shot deat dead
'Police' kill Kenya opposition MP
An opposition MP has been killed in Kenya, as violence
continues over last month's disputed election.
David Too was shot dead by a traffic policeman in the
western town of Eldoret, said a spokesman for his
Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).
He is the second ODM MP to be killed this week. The
shooting of Mugabe Were in Nairobi sparked violent
clashes in slums seen as opposition strongholds.
The post-electoral crisis in Kenya has taken a sharp turn for the worse in recent days with violence claiming many more lives and hampering relief efforts by United Nations agencies and their partners, further worsening an already dire situation.
In the last four days, at least 19 people have been killed in Naivasha and 12 people had been killed in Nakuru following violent massacres and the torching of houses. Nearly 700 people are believed to have been killed in the violence, which first began a few weeks ago after last year’s disputed presidential results declaring President Mwai Kibaki over opposition leader Raila Odinga.
The Lake Naivasha Country Club hotel’s front lawn has been a refugee camp for a group of Luo families who have not eaten anything since they arrived. In the meantime, out front, a large gang of Kikuyus gathers around the clock with makeshift weapons, aiming to kill those Luos hiding inside. It was terrifying to see such a thing and recalls harrowingly the scenes in the movie Hotel Rwanda.
And yesterday there were reports that leaflets had been dropped in the estates along the road from Naivasha to Nairobi, ordering all non-Kikuyus to leave immediately. Later in the day violence erupted in Kikuyu township a predominantly kikuyu area in the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi where a number of mungiki followers who were terrorizing the residents were arrested.
Henry Kosgie said Mr Too was killed at a roadblock as he drove from Nairobi to Eldoret in the
Rift Valley.
The Rift Valley has seen some of the worst violence since the 27 December election.