By Willis Oketch
Mombasa Republican Council leader Omar Mwamnuadzi has been released after spending 25 days in Shimo la Tewa Prison.
Also set free was his wife Maimuna Mwavyombo who was captured together with her husband and two children on October 15 at Kombani in Kwale County.
They stepped out of the prison at about 3.00pm after the court in Mombasa accepted title deeds presented by Makadara MP Gidion Mbuvi early this month as bond.
The leader who faces seven charges and his family have been unable to pay one million shillings each as bail for more than three weeks.
Yesterday, they walked to freedom leaving behind three other MRC leaders, spokesman Mohamed Rashid Mraja, secretary general Hamza Randu and Salim Hamisi Mlamba who heads MRC’s council of elders.
The titles brought by the MP were not adequate to secure freedom for the rest.
Upon his release, Mwamnuadzi, declared: “We all want peace. We want the whole of Coast Province to remain peaceful and we also want to thank the MP and Muhuri for helping to secure our release.”
“We are demanding that the Government guarantees out security,” he thundered to jubilant supporters outside the prison.
The MRC founder also denounced groups that have been opposed to the MP’s efforts to secure his freedom claiming “these are not our people and there are people who are trying to interfere with our affairs.”
As documents for his release were being processed at the Mombasa Law Courts, his supporters and Mbuvi’s followers clashed outside the court over their slogan Pwani si Kenya.
