(1 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi, Kenya – 30 April 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of man crying in back seat of car as deceased MP’s car drives away
2. Various of the deceased MP’s car with bloodstain on seat and broken window
3. Various of people grieving outside the morgue
4. Various of investigating officers outside the morgue
5. Wide of scene
6. Wide of Junet Mohamed, Member of Parliament, Suna East Constituency
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Junet Mohamed, Member of Parliament, Suna East Constituency:
"We would like to take this opportunity to condole with the family of the honourable (MP Charles) Ong’ondo Were. We were with him today in parliament as she said the whole afternoon and he left barely 30 minutes before he met his death. So we would like to ask the police to investigate this matter thoroughly and share with Kenyans, as fast as possible, what happened to our colleague, honourable Ong’ondo Were."
6. Wide of hearse driving into morgue
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Raymond Omollo, Principal Secretary in the State Department for Internal Security and National Administration:
"I have had the opportunity to engage with officers in government. The inspector general of police is here, the DCI is here, the regional police commander is here. What we have are preliminary reports of what transpired but investigations are ongoing to establish what actually happened."
8. Various of hearse outside the morgue
9. Exterior of morgue
STORYLINE:
A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a “targeted and premeditated” crime.
MP Charles Were was shot on Wednesday night after his car stopped at a roundabout on a busy major road.
President Willian Ruto urged police to conduct a “through investigation” and said Thursday that those responsible “must be held to account.”
Were was in the company of his driver and bodyguard when a motorcycle taxi approached their car, and a passenger disembarked and approached their car before firing at the MP, police said in a statement.
The legislator was reelected in 2022 to represent Kasipul constituency in western Kenya for the Orange Democratic Movement party.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga described Were as a “gallant son of the soil.”
Odinga was President Ruto’s main challenger in the 2022 general election.
Political tensions in Kenya have simmered down since last year, when the country saw a series of opposition-backed anti-government protests during which dozens of people died.
Ruto later appointed members of Odinga’s party to the cabinet and the two leaders signed a political pact in March this year.
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