Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations' Serious Crimes Section are now questioning Pokot South Member of Parliament David Pkosing.
The sleuths caught the lawmaker on Thursday evening at the Kenyatta International Convention Center (KICC).
Pkosing is at the DCI headquarters, where he is responding to charges posed against him.
The legislator is reportedly at the DCI concerning statements he made during public rallies in his district, media interviews, and social media posts that are thought to contain themes intended to encourage inter-community violence, according to sources with knowledge of the investigations.
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Depending on the detectives' questions, he may be kept in prison and appear in court on Friday.
Tension is high ahead of a high-level, multiagency operation that will begin on Friday in the six counties designated as dangerous and disturbed.
A three-day grace period for communities to turn in illegal firearms to national government administration officers has passed as of Thursday, to this day. The police have not been able to retrieve any guns from the locals.
The Arabal neighbourhood of Baringo was experiencing a stressful scenario; besides media crew trucks and armoured personnel carriers, there needed more traffic.
Few students attended Sinoni Primary School because their parents said they were unsure of the future. They claim that similar operations in the past have only offered transient relief.
Villages did everything they could to evacuate, not knowing where they were going but being too afraid to stay.
Raila Odinga, the head of the opposition, criticized the government's decision to send troops without consulting the National Assembly to the troubled area.
In a press conference on Thursday, Mr Odinga stated, "We have seen the military being deployed in the North without the authority of parliament as prescribed by the constitution."
"Our constitution is clear: only parliament has the power to order the military into action. Every Kenyan should be concerned about that deployment and the regime's actual and imagined adversaries, including former Jubilee government officials like Dr Fred Matiangi.
An operation to combat banditry, a vice that has cost lives, forced families to flee their homes, and resulted in lost livelihoods, will take place in areas of six counties deemed unsafe and unsettled.
