{"id":9964,"date":"2020-06-21T18:37:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T18:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2020-06-21T18:37:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T18:37:54","slug":"homa-bay-mca-to-be-arraigned-for-assaulting-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/homa-bay-mca-to-be-arraigned-for-assaulting-colleagues","title":{"rendered":"Homa Bay MCA to be arraigned for assaulting colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0JAMES OMORO<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> A Homa Bay MCA is expected to appear in court on Monday after being arrested for allegedly assaulting his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Kendu Bay Town MCA Maurice Ogwang\u2019 is alleged to have hired goons to assault his two colleagues Juma Awuor (Homa Bay Town East) and Julius Nyambok (Homa Bay Town Central) at River Ondhedhe in Karachuonyo on May 7.<\/p>\n<p>Homa Bay police boss Esther Seroney confirmed that Ogwang\u2019 was arrested following a directive from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).\u201cWe took his file to the DPP that recommended that he be arrested. He will be charged on Monday,\u201d said Seroney.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly occurred when Awuor, Nyambok and their South Kasipul counterpart Geoffrey Opiyo went to visit their nominated colleague Amina Ismael at her home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attacked and robbed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Awuor the assailants blocked them on a bridge on the river and assaulted them before pushing them into the river.Awuor said he was robbed of Sh75,000 and his mobile phone worth\u00a0 Sh120,000 destroyed during the attack.The windowpanes of his V 8 vehicle were also broken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suffered injuries and huge financial losses due to the attack. I am praying that the State can accord me justice,\u201d said Awuor.On the hand, Nyambok said the assailants robbed him of Sh180,000\u00a0 besides being assaulted.\u201cWhat happened was unlawful. We did not want to retaliate because we are law-abiding citizens,\u201d Nyambok said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack occurred when Awuor, Nyambok and Opiyo were mobilising their colleagues for a change in the county assembly majority leader post.They recorded statements at Kendu Bay Police Station before the matter was transferred to Homa Bay Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>But when contacted on Saturday, the MCA denied that he had been arrested and warned the media against reporting anything about him.&#8221;Do not write anything about me. I am not aware of any arrest,&#8221; said Ogwang&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0JAMES OMORO AfricaPress-Kenya: A Homa Bay MCA is expected to appear in court on Monday after being arrested for allegedly assaulting his colleagues. Kendu Bay Town MCA Maurice Ogwang\u2019 is alleged to have hired goons to assault his two colleagues Juma Awuor (Homa Bay Town East) and Julius Nyambok (Homa Bay Town Central) at River [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[3667,450,2319],"class_list":["post-9964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-assault-charges","tag-dpp","tag-homa-bay"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Homa Bay MCA to be arraigned for assaulting colleagues - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Homa Bay MCA is expected to appear in court on Monday after being arrested for allegedly assaulting his colleagues.\u00a0Kendu Bay Town MCA Maurice\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/homa-bay-mca-to-be-arraigned-for-assaulting-colleagues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Homa Bay MCA to be arraigned for assaulting colleagues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Homa Bay MCA is expected to appear in court on Monday after being arrested for allegedly assaulting his colleagues.\u00a0Kendu Bay Town MCA Maurice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/homa-bay-mca-to-be-arraigned-for-assaulting-colleagues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-21T18:37:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/06\/homa_bay_mca_to_be_a5eef34483580c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/homa-bay-mca-to-be-arraigned-for-assaulting-colleagues#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/homa-bay-mca-to-be-arraigned-for-assaulting-colleagues\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Homa Bay MCA to be arraigned for assaulting colleagues\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-21T18:37:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/homa-bay-mca-to-be-arraigned-for-assaulting-colleagues\"},\"wordCount\":322,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/homa-bay-mca-to-be-arraigned-for-assaulting-colleagues#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/06\/homa_bay_mca_to_be_a5eef34483580c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Assault charges\",\"DPP\",\"Homa Bay\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/homa-bay-mca-to-be-arraigned-for-assaulting-colleagues#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/homa-bay-mca-to-be-arraigned-for-assaulting-colleagues\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/homa-bay-mca-to-be-arraigned-for-assaulting-colleagues\",\"name\":\"Homa Bay MCA to be arraigned for assaulting colleagues - 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