EMBAKASI EAST MP BABU OWINO HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM POLICE CUSTODY

Embakasi East MP Paul Ongili aka Babu Owino has been released on a cash bail of Sh500,000 with two sureties of Sh1 Million each deposited.

The Legislator spent a two nights in police custody on Tuesday, as he awaited a ruling on whether he would be released on bail.

The young MP was charged with two charges which he denied. The first charge against him was subversion and the second count was that he uttered words that were intended to cause a breach of peace.

The court heard that on September 24 at Kawangware in Dagoretti North Mr Ongili uttered words calculated “to excite disaffection against the presidency”.

The MP faced an alternative charge of incitement to violence.