Nairobi — Detectives held and questioned an Assistant minister in Nairobi over a deadly cache of weapons found in his official car.

In Eldoret, a Party of National Unity rally was violently disrupted.

And in Western Province, another vehicle belonging to a former MP found ferrying armed youths was impounded, then released in unclear circumstances.

To a large extent, it was yet another eventful day on the political scene as the clock ticked away towards polling day on December 27.

Assistant Water minister, Mr Raphael Wanjala, walked into Mazingira Buildings, the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) at 7.30am and by late last night, police were still holding and questioning him over a deadly assortment of weapons police found in his official car last week after it was waved down at a roadblock.

Meanwhile, police in Bungoma also impounded a Land Rover belonging to immediate former Bumula MP, Mr Sylvestor Wakoli. Police said the vehicle, which was in a convoy of others in a campaign trail, was carrying armed youths.

Police did not arrest the youth, saying they fled. They then released the car after holding it briefly. Wakoli denied that weapons had been recovered from his vehicle.

He said he had gone to the Bungoma police after he heard rumours that his vehicle had been impounded with weapons.

Uhuru's rally disrupted

And in Ziwa in Uasin Gishu District, scores of people were injured when a group of youth violently disrupted a PNU rally presided over by Kanu chairman Mr Uhuru Kenyatta.

This was just a day after Prof George Saitoti found himself sandwiched between his bodyguards and police, who were shielding him from flying missiles after a rally in his Kajiado North backyard turned chaotic.

Uhuru was in Uasin Gishu campaigning for President Kibaki and the Eldoret North parliamentary seat PNU candidate, Mr Jonathan Bii.

Trouble started when a group of youth numbering about 50 chanted ODM slogans in response to greetings of Harambee! Harambee!

They threw stones at the crowd after another group donning Kanu T-shirts attacked them.

Women, children and the large crowd, that attended the meeting, quickly dispersed as everyone scampered for safety.

The injured were rushed to hospital as a former Wareng County Council chairman, Mr Moses Keter, appealed for calm for about 30 minutes.

A group of youth put a cordon around Uhuru during the fracas before the Kanu group repulsed the ODM group with the help of anti-riot police.

Calm returned after about 30 minutes, during which time Uhuru was busy working his mobile phone.

He later blamed the chaos on Pentagon member, Mr William Ruto, the immediate former area MP, saying it was shameful he had hired goons to unleash trouble on his own people.

But when reached by The Standard, Ruto told Uhuru off, saying the Kanu chairman was solely responsible for the violence.

Said Uhuru of Ruto: "Hakuwa na hiyo tabia ya kurusha mawe lakini inaonekana amefunzwa na wale wengine (He never used to engage in that kind of behaviour but it appears he has learned the habit from his new friends)".

Kibaki back on campaign trail

After taking a quiet day off on Tuesday, President Kibaki will return to the campaign trail this morning to slug it out with his opponents.

And the ODM Pentagon hit the road to the Coast Province on Tuesday, a day after brokering peace between its victorious aspirants and the losers.

ODM-Kenya presidential candidate, Mr Kalonzo Musyoka, on the other hand, consolidated his support in upper Eastern Province for the second day running.

Their competitors in the Party of National Unity (PNU), who are still quarrelling over bona-fide PNU affiliates, remained stuck in Nairobi where 18 parties demanded an urgent meeting with President Kibaki after they were locked out in a coalition, which they "helped put together".

The Pentagon team, comprising of ODM presidential candidate Mr Raila Odinga, Mrs Charity Ngilu and Mr Najib Balala, told their supporters at the Coast that the party was convinced it would win the December 27 General Election.

"We have no choice but to win the elections because a defeat will be an unbearable burden on Kenyans for another five years," said Raila when the team landed in Bura.

Raila revisited the Majimbo debate and said ODM would go for a devolved system of government to ensure the welfare of all Kenyans was well taken care of.

Kalonzo bragged in Eastern Province that only the ODM-Kenya had conducted a credible nomination which, he said, had left his party stronger.

Kalonzo, despite repeatedly being rated below 11 per cent by various pollsters, was still talking miracles and expressing optimism that he would beat President Kibaki and Raila during the December polls.

"As I have said before, there will be a political miracle in the country. Things have started taking shape and Kenyans have realised that ODM-Kenya stands for real change," he said.