Babu Owino: I was tortured at Pangani Police Station

In the dock: Embakasi East MP Babu Owino Photo:Courtesy

Embakasi East MP Babu Owino on Thursday told a court of law that he was tortured at Pangani Police Station. He accused police officers of sending street children to harass and intimidate him.

Earlier in the day, students from the University of Nairobi were engaged in running battles with General Service Unit (GSU) anti-riot squads as they protested the arrest of the Embakasi East MP.

Paul Ongili Owino aka Babu Owino was arrested over alleged abusive remarks on President Uhuru Kenyatta.

He is alleged to have referred to unnamed person as “a son of bitch” (mtoto wa mbwa).

Officers at the DCI headquarters were ordered to study the clip that captured the said utterances for possible action.

Police re-arrested the MP moments after his release by a Nairobi magistrate court.

Police said Mr Owino was to be charged with assault, an offence he allegedly committed when he was vying for the Students Organisation of Nairobi University (Sonu) chairman’s seat last year.

The MP had just been released on a Sh500, 000 bail and two sureties of Sh1 million each.

The MP is facing charges of subversion and offensive conduct as well as an alternative charge of incitement to violence.

The case will be mentioned on Wednesday October 4, 2017.

Owino’s lawyer Siaya Senator James Orengo was addressing the youthful MP's supporters outside the court when undercover police officers snatched the legislator from the court’s basement.