MP’s mobile cash transfers under probe
What you need to know:
- The MP was presented with five logs of money transfers that police suspect were sent to individuals who may have directly participated in the heckling at the meeting.
- Police demanded from the MP details of cash transactions that he did a few days to President Kenyatta’s Migori tour.
Police are focusing on five M-Pesa transactions by Suna East MP Junet Mohammed to establish whether he played a role in the disruption of President Kenyatta’s rally in Migori last week.
The MP was presented with five logs of money transfers that police suspect were sent to individuals who may have directly participated in the heckling at the meeting.
However, it emerged that Sh40,000 sent in one of the transactions was cashed by the MP’s landlord in Migori Town, while Sh3,000 was sent to an IT technician he had contracted to fix his laptop and further Sh3,000 to his wife.
Police demanded from the MP details of cash transactions that he did a few days to President Kenyatta’s Migori tour.
Mr Junet, who was accompanied by his lawyers when he went to record a statement, said he did not understand why he was being questioned for sending money to his wife, landlord and an IT contractor.
“It is clear that they are finding nothing in the investigations because they are focusing on the wrong person.”
He said he had nothing to do with the heckling and urged Migori residents to respect the President any time he visits them.
