A helicopter belonging to Pokot South Member of Parliament David Pkosing is now the subject of forensic investigation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
The analysis is to carry on Saturday morning by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
The embattled legislator, who was interrogated for the second consecutive day since his arrest on Thursday afternoon, has denied using his aircraft to perpetrate banditry in the North Rift region.
According to his lawyer Danstan Omari, the analysis is part of investigations into claims of his client’s alleged involvement in banditry and money laundering.
“At 11am the police and his lawyers will be at Wilson Airport to take the photos of that helicopter that belongs to him,” Omari said.
The chopper became the subject of investigations after it was used to ferry seven men from the Kitale Law Courts after they were arraigned on banditry charges. They were each released on Sh10,000 bond, which the MP says he paid as their leader.
On Friday morning he went to DCI Headquarters and was cleared, only to be summoned later in the evening.
While addressing the media, Pkosing denied the allegations saying that he is a peace-loving Kenyan and has never benefitted from any proceeds of banditry.
“On all the questions posed to my client, he has responded that all his life he has never been in the business of selling cattle,” Omari said.
“He has never received any proceeds from the banditry in that region,” he added.
On the issue of a white chopper that has allegedly been used to arm the bandits, the legislator disowned it with his lawyers, saying that if that was the case, then the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority would have grounded it a long time ago.
According to Pkosing, his chopper is white and green while the alleged chopper is said to be white.
The legislator argued that he was being singled out by investigators, saying that many leaders had commented on the issue of cattle rustling, but he was the only one who had been summoned and interrogated.
