Last Tuesday, Ruto’s political clande Aisha Jumwa and otieno stormed the home of the ODM aspirant, now mp elect, for the Ganda seat in Malindi, Mr Reuben Katana and erupted a scuffle that saw Katana’s uncle shot dead.
However, according to Police records, Geoffrey Okuto Otieno, the man arrested alongside questionable Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa is not a newbie to events encompassing guns.
In April 2017, Mr Otieno a civilian and police impersonator used his live bullets in yet another ODM primaries ahead of that year’s polls.
In 2017, Mr Otieno, who was vying for the party’s ticket to contest the Hospital Ward MCA seat. He was arrested and charged at a Nairobi court for misuse of a firearm.
According to police reports, he was arrested after he fired live bullets at his opponent’s supporters during the nomination campaigns.
The charge sheet alleged that he went armed with a pistol at Mathare 4B Area on April 23 that year. Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi released him on a bond of Sh50,000 or a cash bail of Sh30,000,
In the Tuesday confrontation, Mr Katana’s uncle was shot dead with police investigating Mr Otieno’s role in the shooting. In one of the video clips seen by Kenyan bulletin, Mr Otieno is clad in a white shirt, a pair of shorts and a blue cap.
According to police reports captured in an affidavit filed in court, Mr Otieno, in the company of Ms Jumwa and others, allegedly fired some shots and in the process the crowd started shouting that Mr Gumbao Jola, the MCA-elect’s uncle, had been shot.
On Thursday, after spending two nights at the Port Police Station in Mombasa, Ms Jumwa and Mr Otieno were each released on Sh500,000 cash bail with a Sh1 million alternative.
In the Ganda incident, police confiscated the man from Karachuonyo, Homa Bay County, who is known as “Jeff” by those close to him, Otieno’s firearm with a view to authenticating its certificate.
Mr Otieno is said to have first met Ms Jumwa during the ODM 10-year anniversary celebrations held in Kisumu in 2016.
