Nairobi's Pangani Police Station was on Wednesday a beehive of activity as wives to senior politicians thronged the station to take care of their darling husbands.
A dramatic scene, however, unfolded when Suna East Member of Parliament Junet Mohamed's wife decided to flout a police directive to surrender their phones before seeing their husbands.
Ms Faizah is said to have sneaked in her phone and managed to take pictures of her husband inside the filthy Pangani cells.
Keen-eyed police officers, however, pounced on her, confiscated the phone and deleted the images before handing it back to her.
Asked by Journalists how the honourable members were doing, Ms Mohammed said : “They (CORD MPs) are bare-foot and held in one cell while those of Jubilee are in a separate one. Police have refused to allow us to give them food, clothes and other needs and we don’t understand why they are doing this.”
Also shocked beyond her imagination was Machakos Senator Johnsone Muthama's wife Jemimah. She had brought her millionaire husband a change of well-done clothes but was turned away with them.
“He is a clean man but he is still in yesterday’s clothes. The smell in there is choking," Muthama’s wife narrated, adding that her husband and his colleagues had not taken a shower since Tuesday.
“They are in the same suits they were in when they were arrested. They don’t have shoes with them and they look sickly,” she added.
The Waheshimiwa's wives revealed that police had rejected any food from outside as their husbands were being served 'State-provided' meals like other suspects.
The wives of Jubilee lawmakers Moses Kuria and Ferdinand Waititu, who were also at Pangani Police Station largely avoided the media.
Describing the situation at Muthaiga Police Station, where MPs Aisha Jumwa and Florence Mutua are detained, ODM Chairman John Mbadi observed: “I have seen Jumwa and she is actually suffering. She has not had a meal for 36 hours and she is fasting".
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the High Court declined an application for bail by the eight lawmakers held over hate speech.
Justice Joseph Onguto stated he would explain on Thursday why he dismissed the application.
