Makadara MP Gidion Kioko Mbuvi was finally freed after spending six nights at Nairobi’s Kileleshwa Police Station. Mr Mbuvi was granted a Sh1,5 bond in two fraud cases on Friday, but he could not secure the bond. He was taken to the Kileleshwa Police Station instead of the industrial Area Remand prison.
He had been charged with fraudulently obtaining Sh5.3 million. The Makadara MP was released after Kibera chief magistrate Cecilia Githua examined his sureties and approved them. After the magistrate signed his re-lease orders, the MP was transferred from Kileleshwa Police Station to Industrial Area before he was freed at 4.55pm. Immediately he was released, he addressed his supporters and accused the Police Commissioner of ‘”finishing youth’, His supporters jammed the prison gate singing his praises and dancing. The supporters had gone to court some minutes after 7am, forcing the police to block them from entering court precincts. The police fired In the air to disperse the crowd. Lawyers led by Cliff Ombeta accorn panted the accused to the Industrial Area jail.
Other lawyers representing him are Mr Cecil Miller and Mr Paul Muite. Several motorcycles led his convoy of vehicles from Industrial Area to Makadara. On Friday, the magistrate lifted a warrant of arrest Issued against him seven years ago for jumping bail after denying obtaining Sh18.1 million. Chief Inspector Joseph Musyoke did not object to the accused being freed on bail. Mr Mbuvi is chimed with fraudulently obtaining Shs500,000 from Ms Patience Chepchumba Kogo in Mombasa on November 24, last year In the second count, Mr Mbuvi denied conspiring to defraud Tile Carpet Centre Ltd of Sh2.8 million on August 16, 2006. Hearing was set for December 28, and February 1, 2011.
