A rifle and 117 rounds of ammunition were on Sunday found hidden near former President Mwai Kibaki’s retirement home in Mweiga, Nyeri County.
The rifle had been modified to fire different ammunitions, and it is suspected that the weapons were used to kill a rhino at the highly guarded Solio Ranch, which is just a few kilometers from the area.
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Kenya: Police Find Firearms in Siege on Odinga’s Funder’s Home
Police say they found firearms in a raid on billionaire Jimi Wanjigi’s homes in Nairobi, Mombasa and Malindi.
Wanjigi, a tenderpreneur of presidents Daniel Moi and Mwai Kibaki, and the early years of the Uhuru Kenyatta regimes, is credited with being a key financier of Raila Odinga’s National Super Alliance party and having played a key role in its campaigns as the funds mobiliser.
Police who stormed the home of controversial businessman Jimi Wanjigi, breaking doors with axes and metal cutters, were looking for guns, ammunition and explosives.
They said they found an M4 — a military-grade rifle — five pistols and a shotgun at his Muthaiga home in Nairobi and that they were hoping to find documents with information on importation and use of the weapons.
Source: https://allafrica.com/
