Why Babu Owino Will Be Back In Court Today
Babu Owino, the Embakasi East Member or Parliament (MP) will on Tuesday appear in court to seek orders to compel the government to give him back his gun.
Owino’s gun was confiscated following an acquittal in a misuse of a firearm case.
Last month the lawmaker found not guilty in the misuse of firearm case lodged against him by the state following an incident in which Felix Orinda alias DJ Evolve was January 2020 shot at B – Club in Kilimani area of Nairobi.
Nairobi senior principal magistrate Benard Ochoi in his judgment said investigators could not link Babu’s gun to the shooting.
He added that even the victim could not tell if the bullet was fired by the two-term Embakasi East MP.
As such, Babu is demanding his gun which was confiscated after the incident back.
Embakasi MP Paul Ongili famously known as Babu Owino has opened up on his life that has been full of arrests and court cases.
Babu Owino has confessed that his journey of arrests dates back to when he was in primary school.
During his first arrest Babu said he was helping his family sell chang’aa to make ends meet.
He remembers having been arrested while he was writing his KCSE and was made to sleep in the cell.
“I was arrested on the day of my KCSE. The officer asked me if I was the only person who was interested in education and took me to the cell,” he said.
“The following day I woke up and started banging on the door. The OCS came, opened the door asked me what was happening. I told him I have an exam he actually released a land cruiser that took me to school,” he added.
He said recently that the officer who arrested him and made him sleep in the cell at that moment called him requesting a bursary for his child.
He gave the bursary to the officer despite what he went through, saying it was in the best interests of the child.
He has also faced a series of arrests while he was the student leader at the University of Nairobi.
The latest arrest was in July when he was arrested at JKIA soon after landing from Mombasa.
