The High Court has reduced the cash bail granted to Embakasi East MP Babu Owino to Sh5 million.
Babu had challenged a Sh10 million cash bail he was ordered to pay by a Magistrate’s court when he faced charges of attempted murder, for shooting a DJ at B-Club in Nairobi.
He’d been freed on January 27 after pleading not guilty.
Owino had been freed on an Sh10 million cash bail which the court said will be used to settle the medical bill of DJ Evolve whom he shot at Nairobi’s B-Club on January 17.
5 million each. In further measures outlined by the court, the lawmaker was forbidden from drinking in public, a directive emanating from the second charge he faced – carrying a firearm while drunk and disorderly.
The decision to have Owino freed on bail ended a 10-day detention period out of which seven days were spent in a remand prison in Nairobi’s Industrial Area.
Owino was accused of unlawfully attempting to end the life of Felix Orinda after shooting him in the neck, contrary to Section 222 of the Penal Code.
“Any person who becomes an accessory after the fact to murder is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life,” Section 222 of the Penal Code reads.
Owino also faced a second charge arising from his disorderly conduct while armed, the prosecution telling the court the legislator violated Sections 33 and 31 of the Firearms Act.
The Act prescribes imprisonment for a term not exceeding a year, a fine not exceeding Sh10,000 or both for any person found guilty of carrying a firearm while drunk or disorderly.
Owino pleaded not guilty for attempting to kill DJ Evolve, and a second charge of behaving in a disorderly manner while carrying a firearm on January 20.
