Former DP Rigathi Gachagua and his allies when they visited Juja MP George Koimburi after alleged abduction claims at the hospital. A warrant of arrest has been issued to Koimburi. Photo: Rigathi Gachagua X.
A Court in Nairobi has issued an arrest warrant for Juja Member of Parliament (MP) George Koimburi, after he failed to appear in court over allegations of faking his own abduction.
Milimani Law Courts charged the legislator with absentia on Tuesday July 15, along Kanyenya-ini Ward Member of County Assembly (MCA) Grace Nduta and five others.
Koimburi and his co-accused are facing accusations of conspiring to disrupt course of justice, which contravenes Section 117 (c) of the Penal Code.
The Court was informed that on May 25, 2025, Koimburi and his co-accused, Peter Kiratu, David Macharia, Cyrus Keriu and two other individuals identified as Peter and Njuguna planned a staged kidnapping in Mugutha Area in Juja-Sub-County.
According to the prosecution team, the alleged plan was to block Koimburi’s arrest and arraignment in connection with accounts of four fraud land cases.
The legislator was reportedly abducted outside a church service and later was found in a Coffee plantation in Ruiru before he was briefly admitted at Plainsview Hospital and later transferred to a hospital in Nairobi.
The incident attracted a number opposition leaders, including former Deputy President and DCP party leader Rigathi Gachagua, who condemned the attack, and said Koimburi was tortured and infused with a poisonous substance in the alleged abduction.
The State now claims that the whole abduction claims by Koimburi was a lie, as Koimburi further faces a separate charge of publishing false information, after issuing a press statement, claiming that he was kidnapped and tortured via YouTube.
Peter Kiratu Muhia his co-accused also faces similar charges, for providing false information to a public officer after allegedly reporting the abduction at Mugutha Police Station, which prompted police action following the claims.
The four pleaded not guilty when they appeared before Senior Principal Magistrate Ben Mark Ekhubi, as the other two suspects were served with warrant of arrest by the Court.
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