Embakasi East MP Paul Ongili popularly known as Babu Owino
will spent the night withing Parliament Buildings for fear of being arrested.
The Evening Post understands that the first-time legislator who
was elected on an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) ticket in the 2017 elections,
feared he would be arrested in connection to his utterances during an
Opposition rally in Baba Dogo.
At the rally held days after National Super Alliance (NASA)
leader Raila Odinga was installed as the People's President in a controversial
ceremony held at Uhuru Park, Babu used harsh words against Interior CS Fred
Mataing'i.
He had referred to Matiang'i as 'marehemu (the late) and
'mkebe ya blueband' (blueband tin) following the governments crackdown on NASA
leaders who took part in the swearing-in ceremony which had been declared
illegal earlier.
In his defence, Babu said during a press breifing at
Parliament buildings that he only wanted to excite the crowd and remind
Matiang'i that he was not the first one to hold that position.
He told journalists that he would not leave the precincts of
Parliaments as he feared police were waiting to pounce on him and throw him to
the cells despite having a court order blocking his arrest and being charged.
He also said that he was referring to one of his late
friends called Matiang'i who died a while ago. This comes after the legistaltor
was engaged in an ugly war of words with Jubilee nominated senator Millicent
Omanga who had threatened to circumcise him for being a trouble maker. The
Tuesday, January 30 controversial “inauguration” of Raila Odinga as an
alternative president of Kenya led to Interior Ministry declaring his National
Resistance Movement (NRM) an “organized criminal group” under the Prevention of
Organized Crimes Act.
