General Service Unit (GSU) officers have been forced to use tear gas on University of Nairobi students who were protesting against the arrest of Embakasi East MP Babu Owino.
The students engaged anti-riot police in running battles while chanting pro-Owino slogans. They went ahead to barricade State House Road in Nairobi causing massive traffic.
GSU officers arrested two students in the process.
The learners were, however, unable to take to major streets around the campus following heavy presence of GSU officers at strategic exit points around the institution.
Elsewhere, tension was high at the Technical University of Kenya following suspicions that students were planning demonstration to demand the release of Babu.
Happening right now at University of Nairobi #ArrestSonko #Chebukati#Parliament #BabuArrested #babuowino #BabuOwinoLifeInDanger pic.twitter.com/L4E6x4UwdB
— Bernard OG (@Ben_OG_) September 28, 2017
Mr Owino was rearrested on Wednesday shortly after he was released on a Sh500,000 cash bail and two sureties of Sh1 Million each.
He was taken to the Kibera Law Courts on Thursday morning where he was charged with inflicting harm on a voter Joshua Otieno Obende on August 8.
The ruling on Owino's bail application will take place at 4 pm.
On October 14, he is expected back to the Milimani Law Courts for the hearing of charges of subverting justice and making statements to create disaffection against the Presidency. This is after he called President Uhuru Kenyatta a "son of a dog".
