A Member of County Assembly was on early Wednesday shot and injured by a gunman on a motorcycle. The MCA said to be the representative for Korogocho, Maxwell Ochieng’ Ochar, was shot at around 6.10am as he waited for his wife in his private car at a parking lot in Riverside Estate.

Nairobi County police boss Benson Kibue said the gunman rode off from the scene soon after the incident. “The motive of the shooting is yet to be established but officers on the ground are pursuing the attacker,” said Kibue.

Starehe Deputy OCPD, Abdikadir Ahmed said the gunman may have been waiting for the MCA at the parking lot. “He shot the MCA once before escaping on a motorcycle whose number plate was not taken. The MCA sustained a bullet wound on his right hand” Mr Ahmed said.

Police, who visited the scene, collected a spent cartridge and said the gunman shot once shattering the driver’s windowpane. Other witnesses said the gunman aimed at MCA Ochar after he had taken the driver’s seat in his saloon car.

The MCA, who is also a member of the County Assembly Committee on Planning and Housing, is admitted at a Nairobi Hospital in stable condition. He drove himself to the hospital after the attack. Police want to establish if the victim had received any threat to his life. This is because the gunman did not steal anything from him. Some of his colleagues later visited him in hospital and announced that he was in a stable condition.