Embakasi East MP Babu Owino and five others granted bail

Embakasi East MP and five others before Milimani Magistrate Lucas Onyina on July 21, 2023. [Collin Kweyu, Standard]

Embakasi East MP Babu Owino and five others have been freed on a Sh100,000 bail or Sh200,000 bond.

Milimani Magistrate Lucas Onyina found that the state did not produce enough evidence against them.

They had been arraigned in Court on Thursday evening and the Magistrate deferred the ruling to Friday morning.

In his directions, he ordered that the legislator be taken to the hospital to get medical attention after his lawyers Ndegwa Njiru and Dancun Okatch claimed that during his 72 hour detention, he had been denied food and medical attention.

Owino was arraigned in court alongside Calvince Otieno alias Gaucho, Eric Theuri, Tom Odongo, Michael Otieno, Pascal Ouma, Kelvin Wambo, and Willy Owino.

General Service Unit (GSU) officers were brought in to man the Milimani Law Courts on Friday morning as the case against the six was ongoing.

Several people including Standard Group Journalist Collins Kweyu were injured by the officers as they dispersed Owino supporters who tried to access the court.

According to the lawyers, Owino was arrested on Tuesday evening at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after landing from Mombasa.

He was then driven to the Wang'uru Police Station in Embu County where he was detained until he was moved to the Nairobi Area Police Station on Thursday.