Kenyan cop kills opposition MP
2008-01-31 13:00
Nairobi - An opposition parliamentarian was shot and killed by a traffic police officer in the Rift Valley on Thursday, said a police official, the second opposition MP to be killed this week in a country that had been gripped by ethnic fighting since last month's disputed presidential election.
Henry Kosgie, an official of the opposition Orange Democratic Movement, said at a news conference that witnesses said David Too was shot by a police officer at a roadblock as he was travelling from Nairobi to the western Kenyan city of Eldoret by car.
An Associated Press reporter saw MP Too's body at a hospital in Eldoret, where Deputy Police Chief Gabriel Kuya said the motive was jealousy.
Kuya said the traffic officer discovered that his girlfriend was having an affair with Too, and when he saw them both in the car, chased them on his motorcycle.
"He drove toward the side of the woman and shot her in the stomach twice. Her partner (legislator Too) pleaded with the officer not to kill her but he turned his pistol on him instead, hitting him four times in the head," Kuya told the AP.
- AP