Gladys Shollei Reveals Attempts To Lure Out Of Bomas To Be Arrested

National Assembly Deputy Speaker, Gladys Shollei recounted how unknown individuals had tried to lure her out of the Bomas of Kenya National Tallying Centre with the aim of arresting her during the August 9 general elections.

Speaking during an interview on Citizen TV aired on Thursday, December 22, Shollei recalled being approached by a police officer who had warned her not to exit the building lest she's arrested and taken to an undisclosed location other than the police station.

She even named instances whereby unknown people approached her claiming to be sent by Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen to meet outside the building, which she ignored.

Gladys Boss Shollei in the middle of other poll agents at Bomas of Kenya on August 9, 2022. /FILE

“Things began to change towards the last three days, I remember a police officer whom I do not even know his name walked up to me and told me please do not leave this building, if you do, they will arrest you but you’re not going to be taken to the police station. That’s when I made the decision to stay in Bomas.

“In fact, I remember at that time, someone walks up to me and says that Murkomen is looking for you, he’s calling you outside. I didn’t go and then someone else came and said that Murkomen is looking for you and I ignored him,” she said.

Afterwards, another person wondered why she was not responding to an indirect summons by the CS, to which she found fault as Murkomen had her phone number and would have called her at any moment in case of anything.

“Someone asked me why I’m not going Gladys and I said that doesn’t make sense, of course, Murkomen is not calling me; he has my phone number and if he wanted to see me he would walk into the building, so obviously you’re trying to lure me out of Bomas,” she added.

She then revealed that there were attempts by other unknown persons to search her vehicle in the dead of night, to which she instructed her driver to devise ways of preventing them from doing so.

The driver had, according to her, told the individuals that they could not search the vehicle unless the owner was present.

“At some point, it was almost 3 am in the morning and my driver called me, he was seated in the car and he tells me that there are some people who want to search the vehicle and I told him don’t; tell them the owner has to be present but don’t say it’s me. My driver said to them he is coming, referring to me as a man and so they left," she added.

Shollei believed that the individuals wanted to lure her to her vehicle, claiming it had suspicious materials in connection with the tallying of votes after the elections and were determined to arrest her.

“Obviously what they wanted to do was lure me to my car and they said that my car had suspicious materials in it, that’s why they wanted to search it, obviously they wanted to arrest me. 

“I think they were desperate, some people believed that I had a way of playing with the results which is not even true," she added.

The expose dubbed The Bomas Rapture gave a blow-by-blow account of events that led to the chaos witnessed on Monday, August 15 at the Bomas of Kenya when Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairperson Wafula Chebukati was announcing the results,

The events that led to that day were traced way back to before the appointment of the infamous Cherera 4.

Watch it below: