Embakasi MP Paul Ongili famously known as Babu Owino has opened up on his life that has been full of arrests and court cases.
Speaking on TV47 on Friday, Babu said his journey of arrests dates back to when he was in primary school.
By then, he was helping his family sell chang’aa to make ends meet, and that would see him get arrested on several occasions and spend nights in the cell at Central Police Station in Kisumu.
He remembers having been arrested while he was writing his KCSE and was made to sleep in the cell.
“I was arrested on the day of my KCSE. The officer asked me if I was the only person who was interested in education and took me to the cell,” he said.
“The following day I woke up and started banging on the door. The OCS came, opened the door asked me what was happening. I told him I have an exam he actually released a land cruiser that took me to school,” he added.
He said recently that the officer who arrested him and made him sleep in the cell at that moment called him requesting a bursary for his child.
He gave the bursary to the officer despite what he went through, saying it was in the best interests of the child.
He has also faced a series of arrests while he was the student leader at the University of Nairobi.
Babu said he was doing everything then to protect the welfare of comrades either from delays in Helb disbursements or arbitrary increases in fees by the university.
The latest arrest was in July when he was arrested at JKIA soon after landing from Mombasa.
“All the way to the university I was arrested severally I think I am the person who has been arrested the most in this world because the number of arrests and the number of court cases that I have gone through myself have become part of me; it is an occupational hazard.”
