Kenya, May 26 -- The police have said they did not take part in the claimed kidnapping of Juja MP George Koimburi, who was later found safe.

The police think Koimburi might have faked his own abduction and have started looking into what happened.

Koimburi was discovered awake and left in a coffee plantation in Kibichoi, Kiambu. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.

He was found there on Monday morning, nearly 12 hours after his family and friends said he had been kidnapped in the Mugutha area.

The police want to find out how the people who found him knew he was in the coffee plantation.

An officer involved in the case said, "His phone has been off since Friday, when we tried to arrest him, but our operation was stopped."

On Friday, the police tried to arrest him as he left an event in Juja. He got out of his car with a security officer and jumped on a motorcycle before disappearing.

The police arrested his driver and took him to the DCI headquarters for questioning. The driver said Koimburi told him to drop him on the road when he found out the police wanted to arrest him.

This is related to an investigation about a land issue.

The officer explained, "Since then, he has been offline, and it wasn't until Sunday when we heard he had been kidnapped or arrested. Later, we found out he had been located."

On Monday, police visited a church where Koimburi had been before the alleged kidnapping and also looked at the place where he was found, the coffee plantation, and two hospitals where he received care.

They wanted to understand the injuries Koimburi had when he was discovered.

The police talked to witnesses to gather more information. Koimburi said he was beaten by the men who took him from outside a church in Kiambu on Sunday afternoon.

When he was found, he was lying on the ground, unconscious and in pain, still wearing the navy blue suit he had on Sunday.

The reason behind this incident is not yet clear.

According to what witnesses and Koimburi's wife, Ann Koimburi, said, he was approached by two men pretending to be churchgoers.

These men blended into the crowd that was greeting the MP after the service and then suddenly grabbed him and forced him into a waiting Subaru car that had a changed number plate, probably to hide its true identity.

Ann Koimburi mentioned, "We had just left church, and it is normal for him to greet people, but they quickly turned on him and took him away in the car."

She also tried to help but was overpowered and hurt during the struggle.

The two men, who were not in uniforms, did not say who they were during the incident. Koimburi had been wanted since Friday over the land issue.

This matter is still being investigated.

The recent news has brought many different reactions, with a lot of people criticizing what happened.

Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Bana Kenya.