A member of parliament for Kenya's ruling party was shot dead in the capital Nairobi just before dawn today, police said.
The motives for the killing of Mr Tony Ndilinge, a former assistant trade minister, were unclear, police spokesman Mr Peter Kimanthi said.
State-run Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) radio said Mr Ndilinge had been shot by unknown attackers at 5 a.m. (3 a.m. Irish time) while parking his car outside a bar in the downmarket Githurai suburb of Nairobi.
His body was found with 20,000 Kenyan shillings in cash and cheques worth 45,000 shillings, KBC reported. His car was missing.
Mr Ndilinge had been the MP for the constituency of Kilome in eastern Kenya since 1992, representing the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) party.
He had long been seen as a rebel MP within KANU but recently reaffirmed his allegiance to President Mr Daniel arap Moi.
Armed robbery and carjackings are increasingly common in the Kenyan capital, fuelled by rising poverty and increasing availability of small arms.
Last year, two ruling party MPs were also shot and wounded in an attempted robbery in the capital.
