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.

The National Police Service says preliminary investigations indicate that the fatal shooting of Kasipul Member of Parliament Charles Ong'ondo Were was a planned and well-executed attack.

The opposition legislator had just left parliament when he was attacked by gunmen on a motorcycle, police say.