Suspended Kisumu Majority Leader Ong'ow charged with assaulting police officers

Samuel Ong'ow

Kisumu County Assembly's suspended Majority Leader Samuel Ong'ow was Thursday arraigned at Tamu Law Courts in Muhoroni with charges of assaulting a police officer.

The assault is said to have taken place on May 11 when officers attached to the EACC in Kisumu went to arrest him over a graft case. Senior Resident Magistrate Aswani Opande heard that Ong'ow assaulted Corporal David Nyandika at Pawteng' village.

He was released on a bond of Sh50,000 with an alternative of a cash bail worth Sh20,000. The case will be heard on July 30. After the Tamu court, Ong'ow went to Kisumu where he was also released on a Sh1 million cash bail over the corruption case.