Late Extra: Margaret Wanjiru Press Conference Ends In Chaos As Journalists Are Assaulted

The Margaret Wanjiru controversy plot thickened this morning when journalists in attendance were locked up in a room and some of them assaulted.

All seemed to be well when the press briefing started with the popular television evangelist apologizing to Kenyans over her utterances. What followed was her eldest son reading out a written statement to the effect that Margaret Wanjiru was both a mother and father to them and that they had no desire to look for or be found by any other fathers. The youth distinctly said 'fathers' rather than father.

Up to that point, the packed press conference appeared to be headed for the sort of conclusion that would at least yield some answers to this deepening mystery. All the major media house TV crews were there including senior reporters from the local dailies. But what followed was a puzzling drama.

The son had just finished reading his statement and KTN TV anchor Catherine Wambua reached forward to ask the first question when suddenly somebody switched off the electricity supply. The Bishop was quickly whisked away and some very heavily built bodyguards blocked access to her. Journalists tried to take pictures of her leaving while others tried to field questions. That was when the bodyguards got violent. The door through which the Bishop had exited was shut and locked. One well-built man then lifted a journalist high in the air and then threw him down some stairs that the journalists were climbing while following the Bishop to field questions. Then what looked like the same heavily built man started slapping a journalist. All the time, the cameras were rolling. Somebody seems to have been sure that no footage would be obtained in the darkness. But that person has little understanding about the latest digital camcorders, favored by many media houses these days. Later it emerged that the assaulted journalist was in fact a Standard newspapers photographer.

The journalists made statements to the police and one of the bodyguards was being questioned by police shortly after the incident this morning.

Phew!

I have described the incident in great detail because I do not have any answers and neither do I have any guesses to venture. This is just totally extraordinary!

Politically, this would appear to be the end of the road for the Bishop and her political ambitions. Although Narobians in Westlands have been known to be especially fond of electing a very violent MP by the name of Fred Gumo, it is however unlikely that Starehe constituents will follow suit after the shameful and bizarre happenings of this morning.

So many questions now emerge. Was the electricity switched off on purpose so that the Bishop would avoid answering pressing questions? What is it the question about the father of the children that has caused all this chaos? Is he the real father? Why call a press conference and fail to answer pressing questions? Why did she not just send a press release with her questions to the press. Does the prominent Bishop have any advisors? Why did she feel it necessary to hire bodyguards or whoever the heavily built men at the press conference were?

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