Court releases Embakasi East MP Babu Owino on Sh500,000 cash bail

Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino.

Nairobi, Kenya: Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has been released on a Sh500,000 cash bail with two sureties of Sh1 million.

Owino spent two nights in remand after he was arrested over derogatory utterances against the Presidency.

When he appeared at the Milimani Law Courts on Tuesday, Owino denied the charges. He spent the second night at Kileleshwa Police Station awaiting a ruling on his bail application on Wednesday.