Muthama charged with incitement, freed on Sh100,000 bail

Machakos Senator Johnson Muthama. PHOTO | ANTHONY OMUYA |

Machakos Senator Johnson Muthama has been charged in a Nairobi court with incitement and disobedience of the law.

Nairobi Chief Magistrate Daniel Ogembo released the senator on a cash bail of 100,000 pending the hearing of the case on February 16.

He had been summoned to answer the charges after the Director of Public Prosecutions recommended his prosecution.

(READ: Muthama should answer to incitement charges- court)
Muthama was charged alongside activist Japheth Muroko, alias Japhet Thuranira

The charge against the senator read that on September 23 at Uhuru Park, Nairobi, he uttered words in Swahili that have been translated as: “From Friday next week if teachers will have not been paid nobody will go to work and whoever goes shall be stoned, "indicating that it was desirable to bring death and physical injury to persons in Kenya."

Muroko faced a charge translated from Swahili to mean: "We are saying, the motion being brought to impeach Uhuru, any Member of Parliament who votes against it will be lynched."

The offence, according to the prosecution, was committed on September 23 at Uhuru Park, Nairobi.

The said utterances were made during a Cord rally held at Uhuru Park on September 23, 2015.