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A faction of Jubilee legislators are not happy with Nairobi Senator Johnstone Sakaja after he bailed out Embakasi East’s ODM MP Babu Owino.
Led by controversial Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria and his Kikuyu counterpart Kimani Ichung’wa, the Jubilee lawmakers’ accused Sakaja of being an opposition sympathizer.
The MPs are claiming that the Jubilee senator held on to the party just to win the Nairobi Senatorial seat and after winning he is now supporting the opposition.
Kuria and his Jubilee counterparts were speaking at Milimani Law Courts where they accompanied Kuria to a hearing of an incitement to violence case he was charged with.
He, Kuria, evoked that despite being a Catholic faithful, nobody made an effort to get him out of police cells where he was locked when Pope Francis visited Kenya in 2015.
This is not the first time that the Nairobi Senator made headlines for being neutral. As the country conducted the repeat election on October 26th, Jubilee and NASA legislators engaged in a scuffle at Panafric Hotel in Nairobi.
Nairobi Senator Johnston Sakaja towered above the political differences between the two factions of politicians and calmed the situation, shielding NASA’s Hon Anthony Oluoch from being roughed up by a group of security officers.
Babu Owino was detained at Parklands police after he was arrested on Friday and spent two nights in police cells before he was bailed out on Sunday.
Sakaja made an undertaking of Sh104, 000 and a personal surety that he would produce Babu Owino in court the following day.
Sakaja was flanked by NASA MPs Gladys Wanga, Junet Mohamed, and former Embakasi South MP Irshad Sumra as they also sought to have Babu Owino released.
