Police claim Koimburi is an underground operative who must be brought back on surface

Juja MP George Koimburi at Kiambu Law Courts. [File, Standard]

I understand an arrest warrant has been issued against Juja MP George Koimburi, apparently for staging his own abduction. That, I understand, is a very serious offence.

And what triggered Koimburi to “stage” his alleged abduction and go underground was that he was being sought for allegedly defrauding someone in a land transaction. Koimburi reportedly sold the man mahewa, instead of solid earth, before going underground.

I’m intrigued by this idea of surface, land and air. Koimburi, whose name means one who confesses, declared the only reason he was being sought by the long arm of the law was pure siasa.

The kafment also claims Koimburi went underground when he needed school certificates and fished some fakes from below.

Koimburi says the reason siasa is being played on him is because of his association with former DP Rigathi Gachagua aka Riggy G.

Koimburi was voted on a UDA ticket but he made no effort in expressing his disgust at the way Riggy G was hounded out of town. This was seen by some thin-skinned chaps in kafment as an act of provocation, because those who go against chama do it at their own peril.

Anyway, the scene at which Koimburi was abducted was witnessed by many Kenyans, because he was intercepted after a church service and bundled into a waiting Subaru—the signature automobile used by our detectives—and whose standard response, though irritatingly asinine, is to deny, deny and deny.

Even though I have no reason to doubt that Koimburi was abducted,  the police version of the events of that night is intriguing. They claim that Koimburi organised his dramatic exit from the church for a rendezvous with Grace Nduta, the MCA for Kanyena-ini, Murang’a County.

I have no idea how the detectives managed to put Koimburi and Nduta in the same space, and because Nduta is a dashing woman, I was worried for Koimburi, lest some suspicious minds called his wife to say: If you add one and one, then things are starting to make sense…

So, I sighed in relief when I read the police charge against Nduta. Her reported involvement was in plotting to abduct Koimburu with “the intent to murder.”