Prof. Kithure Kindiki, the Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS), has now stated that foul play was involved in the death of former Antubetwe Kiongo Ward MCA George Kaliunga, supposedly killed during a banditry attack in Meru County on Sunday.

Kindiki stated in Igembe North, Meru County, that preliminary findings indicate Kaliunga's murder had been planned and that his would-be attackers sought to cover it up by pretending a banditry attack.

PHOTO | COURTESY Kindiki consoles the family of slain MCA

According to sources, the former MCA was shot amid a firefight between the robbers and the officers accompanying him. Igembe North OCPD According to William Letting, the thieves took the stolen sheep to Kinna in Isiolo.

His body was taken from the crime scene to Nyambene Hospital's mortuary.

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The interior CS stated that The former MCA, Mr George Kaliunga, did not die by accident. It appears there was a strategy to eliminate him. he assured those in attendance that the assassins of the former MCA would be apprehended and prosecuted.

The CS directed that a task force be formed by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to investigate Kaliunga's death and bring his assassins to justice.

PHOTO | COURTESY George Kaliunga 

The CS declared the Meru North region a security operation zone after ordering the urgent deployment of Anti-Stock Theft Unit (ASTU) officers to curb escalating livestock rustling between communities in Isiolo and Meru counties.

kindiki said they would deal with cattle rustlers as they dealt with bandits and armed criminals in the North Rift Valley. He declared Meru North a security operation zone.

The CS added that The security team in Meru North and throughout the country must use all of their skills and experience to identify criminals causing problems for kenyans and that people must be more proactive rather than reactive.

Kindiki asked Meru and Tharaka Nithi county commissioners to develop a method that their respective citizens can utilize to resolve future border conflicts and to present a report on the same to him on Wednesday.