- Mwingi Central MP Gideon Mulyungi accused of insulting President Uhuru has been charged
- This is after going under after being sought by detectives over an insult he made
- Gideon Mulyungi had allegedly stated that he had a bigger member than that of Uhuru
The Mwingi Central MP who a week ago claimed to have a bigger mkuki between his legs than President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta finally had his day in court.
After engaging the police in a cat and mouse game for one week, Gideon Mulyungi was on Monday arraigned in a Kitui court and charged with two counts of hate speech touching on the president.
He faced a third count of issuing offensive remarks against former Kitui Senator David Musila.
Appearing before Chief Magistrate Maryanne Murage, the MP was charged that on October 23 this year, while addressing a political rally at Kalundu market in Kitui town, he insulted President Uhuru when he uttered in Kamba language that, “We mwikuyu niwe wonaa tawikisithe kiasa kusinda mukamba…ngaumisya suluali vaa withia nina kisithe kiasa kukila Uhuru wa Kenyatta,” whose loose English translation means the president and other men from his community mistakenly think they have bigger male organs than Kambas.
Then the MP bragged that he has a bigger bazooka than the commander-in-chief.
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The prosecution stated that the slur was meant to demean the head of state and incite ethnic animosity.
The second charge of hate speech was also in relation to the president in which he is said to have uttered, “Uhuru natavw’e aekane na twilitu twitu (Uhuru should be advised to leave our girls alone) referring to Kitui South MP Rachel Nyamai (Jubilee) and Foreign Affairs principal secretary Monica Juma, accused of inciting ethnic hatred.
The third count stated that on the same day and venue, Mulyungi insulted former Senator Musila by calling him shoga, a Kiswahili word largely taken to mean ‘gay,’ though it can be used among women to denote ‘friend.’
Appearing composed in the dock, the MP who was represented by fellow legislator Daniel Maanzo and Duncan Mbaluka answered “false” to every count.
The court granted him Sh200,000 cash bail which he paid promptly pending the hearing on November 23.
Maanzo who briefly addressed the court said that the meaning of the MP’s speech had been lost in the English translation.
Earlier in the day, the MP accompanied by four of his colleagues presented himself at Kitui Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) offices where he was grilled and his fingerprints taken.
Soon after recording the statement, a smiling Mulyungi emerged from the offices brandishing a fly whisk as the police escorted him into a waiting car.
The car then sped off towards the law courts, about 200 metres away as some of his fellow MPs and a contingent of supporters drawn from Mwingi escorted him on foot.
The court room was jammed by a curious crowd while others waited outside the court premises.
A day after his ‘release,’ the short and slender, deep-pocketed MP held an hour long tour of Mwingi town in seeming flamboyance and defiance where he lashed out at the Jubilee administration while flaunting his fly whisk.
As he walked on foot, acknowledging greetings from people, a battery of young men and women Christened ‘Dr Mulyungi Rescue Team’ in blue overalls walked beside him.
