Naivasha Member of Parliament Jayne Kihara was on Thursday afternoon arrested from her home in the town.
She was expected to spend her night in custody after the arrest.
In the dramatic event livestreamed on her Facebook account, dozens of officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and backed by local ones raided her Maraigushu home in Naivasha.
She was later driven to the Naivasha Police Station, where she was booked briefly.
The MP was later on expected to be transported to the DCI headquarters on Kiambu Road, Nairobi for further grilling, police said.
She protested her arrest saying she can not help police investigate an issue she doesn’t know.
“Dozens of police officers are currently at my Maraigushu home to arrest me,” she wrote on Facebook.
The arrest comes days after the MP failed to honour DCI summons over her alleged earlier remarks deemed to undermine the authority of an unnamed public officer.
In a notice signed by a senior DCI officer George Lenny Kisaka, DCI had directed Kihara to appear at its headquarters on Monday, July 14, at 10.30am.
“I hereby compel you, Hon. Jayne Njeri Wanjiku Kihara, MP for Naivasha Constituency… to appear before me… without fail,” the notice shared by the MP on Sunday read in part.
“Failure to comply with the requisition constitutes an offence liable to prosecution.”
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