This archive report was first published on 17 October 2019.
On October 17, 2019, Malindi Member of Parliament Aisha Jumwa and her co-accused were released on a Ksh 1 million bond or an alternative cash bail of Ksh 500,000.
They had spent the previous night in police custody after a ruling on their bail application was pushed to Thursday.
The embattled MP was arrested at her home in Kakuyuni on Wednesday, following a fatal shooting in Ganda Ward on Tuesday night.
Appearing before a Mombasa court, the prosecution sought to detain the MP for three weeks to enable police complete investigations into the incident.
According to reports, Jumwa is accused of storming a home of a Ganda ward ODM aspirant in Malindi, leading to confrontations that degenerated into chaos causing the death of the aspirant's relative.
Several other ODM supporters, including Magarini Member of Parliament Michael Kingi, were injured in the incident that occurred in the presence of police officers providing security at the aspirant's home.
