{"id":5414,"date":"2020-07-08T12:29:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:36:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:36:26","slug":"5414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=5414","title":{"rendered":"Why talking about Babu Owino and Dj Evolve could land you in jail."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hii ushenzi ya Protection of &#8220;Big Fish&#8221; should come to an End in our Judiciary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is the Court Barring DPP, DCI &amp; Media House from interfering with Babu Owino&#8217;s vs Dj Evolve Case?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice Should be Our Shield &amp; Defender, But Here We Live in Fear coz &#8220;The Justice is Injustice&#8221; Hon Cate Waruguru said.<br>&nbsp;Nairobi court on Wednesday barred the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the media from commenting on the merits of the Babu Owino and DJ Evolve case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court also directed that the matter be mentioned on August 11, 2020 to confirm whether the victim \u2013 Felix Orinda, alias DJ Evolve \u2013 has recorded a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Babu Owino, through lawyer Cliff Ombeta, raised an objection accusing the DPP overstepping his mandate by allegedly inciting Embakasi East constituents to recall him as their MP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ombeta made his submissions before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Bernard Ochoi arguing that the said actions of the office of the DPP are \u201caffecting the emotions of the accused person\u201d telling the State prosecutor to \u201cstick in his line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The controversial legislator recently attracted public anger following an interview with DJ Evolve aired by NTV in which the victim said that since undergoing surgery following the shooting incident he has been left struggling to talk and unable to do anything for himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MP\u2019s lawyers later served the media house with a demand letter terming the story as \u201cscandalous and libelous\u201d and aimed at pitting him against the public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hii ushenzi ya Protection of &#8220;Big Fish&#8221; should come to an End in our Judiciary. Why is the Court Barring DPP, DCI &amp; Media House from interfering with Babu Owino&#8217;s vs Dj Evolve Case? Justice Should be Our Shield &amp; Defender, But Here We Live in Fear coz &#8220;The Justice is Injustice&#8221; Hon Cate Waruguru &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions\/5417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}