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DJ Evolve: Babu Owino gets gag order against DPP, media
Embakasi East MP Babu Owino at the Milimani Law Courts on January 27, 2020 for a bail hearing in the shooting of Fred Odhiambo Orinda, popularly known as DJ Evolve. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- The interim gag order in the case against Babu Owino over the shooting and serious wounding of DJ Evolve, real name Felix Orinda, will remain in force until August 8.
- Senior principal magistrate Bernard Ochoi issued the order after Owino’s lawyers sought the court’s intervention to bar discussion of the matter outside the court.
- But senior assistant DPP Jacinta Nyamosi argued that the ODM MP, suspected to have tried to kill DJ Evolve at a city club, has also been commenting on the case.
A magistrate has barred the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the media from discussing the merits of the attempted murder case by DJ Evolve against Embakasi East MP Babu Owino.
The interim gag order in the case against Babu Owino over the shooting and serious wounding of DJ Evolve, real name Felix Orinda, will remain in force until August 8.
