Kenya police say lawmaker's killing ‘targeted and premeditated'
Kenya's police have said the fatal shooting of a lawmaker by a gunman aboard a motorcycle in the capital Nairobi on Wednesday evening appeared to be targeted and premeditated.
Charles Were, a member of parliament representing Kasipul constituency in Kenya's west, was shot dead at around 7:30 p.m. (11.30 a.m. ET) when his vehicle was stopped at a traffic light on Ngong Road, police said in a statement released late on Wednesday.
According to witnesses, the shooter was riding as a passenger on a motorcycle that stopped alongside the car, police said.
'The pillion passenger approached the vehicle and fired shots at the passenger side before jumping back onto the motorcycle and speeding away,' police said. 'The nature of this crime appears to be both targeted and premeditated.'
Political assassinations are unusual in Kenya, a relatively stable country in a region that has experienced several civil conflicts in recent years.
Were was a member of the opposition ODM party led by veteran politician Raila Odinga, who lost to William Ruto in the last election in 2022.
'Were is no more; mercilessly and in cold blood, gunned down by an assassin in Nairobi this evening,' Odinga wrote on X.
Odinga rejected the 2022 election result, alleging irregularities, but Odinga and some of his allies have since struck agreements to work with Ruto to address Kenya's economic and political challenges.
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It was just deeply respectful. Let's get down to it. Our leaders want this to be positive. They want this to go well. Let's make sure we get it done. But there's lots of detail. Remember, they only approved U.S. companies doing it. They wouldn't let us. We tried to do it for the world. We tried to negotiate for the world. We tried to get it done. And they were saying, no, that's our responsibility. We are willing to do this for America and only for Donald Trump and only for America. So, that was the agreement. This is an American agreement. If you're an American company and you need magnets, they are going to approve it right away, which is what we needed. We tried for everybody else. But in the end, we did what we needed. And we will take off our countermeasures as they approve these magnets. We will approve their, we will remove our countermeasures and we'll be good. We have our tariffs. They are excellent. They are great for America. The trading deal is great for America. And they've agreed. We're going to examine how China can do more business with us. You know, we've got a giant trade deficit. How about China? You buy more of our agriculture. You buy more of our equipment. And I think they've agreed to that. We're going to go through that over the next couple of months. But this feels very, very positive. President Trump set the course in a very positive way. And I think this is really, really good for the foundation of our trade deals for America. This feels really good. I felt really good leaving last night. CARL QUINTANILLA: Well, Mr. Secretary, it's potentially very good for the markets if they can be convinced that these numbers, these tariff levels are not going to change from here. Can we say that? LUTNICK: You can definitely say that. 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We could say the same thing about college admissions and so forth. Where is that line right now? LUTNICK: So, it's very clear. We are competing with China on, in the AI race, OK, for sure. So, we are just not going to give them our best chips. And of course they want them. Americans are the greatest inventors in the world. We are the greatest thinkers in the world, the greatest entrepreneurs in the world. All the greatest chips in the world are American, right? So, of course, they want them and of course they want to use them. And of course, we said absolutely not. Did they ask? Did they ask 20 times, 30 times? Of course they did. They do every time. And we always say no. But we needed to make sure that when they pulled out their card of these rare earth magnets, we put in ours that said, look, you just can't do that to America. America is too great, too strong. We have too many things like plane parts, right? You can't stockpile plane parts. If a part on a plane breaks, your plane's on the ground. So, plane parts, ethane. We didn't send them ethane. Ethane makes plastic. We supply 98% of their ethane. No ethane, no plastic. Imagine trying to run an economy with no plastic. So, if you want to annoy us, the United States of America under Donald Trump is strong enough to annoy you back equally. And then Donald Trump decided rather than going negative, let's go all positive. And he created really the right environment for us to do a very positive deal with the Chinese. The Chinese wanted to go in with a win-win attitude. It was very important to them that it come out win-win and respectful. And I think Donald Trump set the stage for us to have a win-win outcome. And that's why we feel so good. The president feels so good because it was very positive. We stayed very positive. None of this yelling and screaming and that kind of stuff. This was a positive amount of time. We had to get through every topic and every detail. But it was very, very positive for America. And I think it's positive for China as well. EISEN: And you said that the President Xi and Trump just have to fully approve it. I mean, finally approve it. Don't trade deals have to be approved by Congress? LUTNICK: No, no. This is -- this -- remember, this cleans up the -- the Geneva deal that we had set. So, this is -- EISEN: What is the Geneva deal? Can you tell us what's in that? LUTNICK: OK. Sure. What it basically says is you will approve -- they set up this whole new process of licenses for rare earths, right? And so they set up this whole new process and it really wasn't working. They said, gee, we're trying to do it. But, you know, we have thousands of applications and they had approved the 98. You know, so like we have thousands of applications for little companies who want this for their motors. And they were just going way too slow. 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Say it again. EISEN: Which negotiation is proving toughest? We heard that Europe, for instance, is a little bit thornier. LUTNICK: Europe was more than thorny. They just weren't -- you know, they just weren't really engaging. And that's why you remember President Trump set out a truth saying, OK, if you're not going to talk to us, why don't you just pay us 50%? And that all of a sudden they got a little religion and made a proper offer. And once you make a proper offer, then the process begins. Remember, there are 15,000 lines of code of every product and every kind of tariff. And you just got to work through those, get those down, get America the proper opportunity to trade into these countries. Remember, we don't really sell cars there. Why don't we sell cars in Europe? Because they make the rules unfair for us. So, we need to fix those rules. So, they're fair. That takes a lot of work, but Europe has said they're on it now. They're going to do it. So, I'm optimistic that we can get there, but Europe and Europe will be probably the very, very end. They are -- they are -- I got to tell you, tough to deal with because there's 27 countries. EISEN: Yeah. LUTNICK: And a non-elected person in charge. So, they have like the opposite of Donald Trump, can have the opposite of Donald Trump. QUINTANILLA: Finally, Mr. Secretary, I know you managed risk your whole career. So, how are you managing the risk that once again, China maybe doesn't comply with these critical minerals licenses? What happens then? Do we go back to London for another agreement about the agreement? LUTNICK: Well, you got to remember that what they've agreed to approve our licenses and deliver the magnets in exchange for their students coming to our universities, us not -- us not subpoenaing all their banks and going through all their banks records to find every single thing all their banks did wrong that they want ethane that they want, you know, airplane parts. So, we can do to them what they'll do to us. So, why bother? So, I don't -- I think that's off the table. I think President Trump played it just right. He set up that we can do to them at least as much. And of course, we didn't take out a third or a half of what we did. All the stuff higher than that. Oh, my God. You got to remember every chip in the world is made with American technology. Cars have 300 chips in them. You don't get our chips. You're not making cars. So, we had a long way to go. We didn't need to take it out. President Trump took the positive route. And so I don't think that's going to happen because they know that President Trump holds just as many cards. And they actually know, of course, because he's got the biggest economy in the world. He's got more cards. EISEN: Well, we know you're very busy and have a lot more deals to get through. So, thank you for the time and for the readout. LUTNICK: That was -- my pleasure to be here. And you can tell the administration feels so good. And working together with Scott and Jamieson was really so much fun. It was one of the -- one of the best times I've had in a tough negotiation. Having those two as my partners couldn't have been better. EISEN: All right. Good to hear it. Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary of the U.S.
