On Friday night Lugari member of Parliament Ayub Savula was arrested from one of entertainment joints in Nairobi on charges of fraudulently obtaining Sh122 million from the Government Advertising Agency (GAA).
He is appearing in court today Monday to face the charges.
His arrested added to the list of the MPs who have been arrested before, making it 15.
Savula’s Friday evening arrest came only hours after Konoin MP Leonard Yegon was charged before Sotik principal magistrate Bernard Omwansa with assaulting Ngetich Kipsang, 29, at Kapset trading centre in Bomet county.
He pleaded not guilty and was released on a Sh15,000 bail.
In the same week, two MPs from Marsabit county were arrested and charged with fanning ethnic conflicts and funding cattle rustling raids.
North Horr MP Chachu Ganya and his Saku counterpart Ali Rasso were arrested in connection with the Borana and Gabra inter-clan clashes which has so far claimed 14 lives and displaced dozens.
In September, Kibwezi West MP Patrick Musimba and his wife Angela Mwende were in the dock. The couple were arrested and charged with stealing Sh1.1 billion from Chase Bank.
The two were arraigned before Milimani senior principal magistrate Hellen Okwani.
They were to be charged alongside the bank’s former chairman Mohamed Khan, Dancun Kabui, James Mwenja, Makrios Agumbi, Luciane Sunter and Ronald Vlasman.
In August, Embakasi North MP James Gakuya was charged, jointly with 12 others, with fraudulent acquisition of Sh39,858,050 National Government Constituency Development Fund money in fictitious road construction contracts.
The same month, Sirisia MP John Waluke was arrested over corruption allegations.
The MP was arraigned before Milimani Anti-corruption Court charged with counts of fraud in relation to a contract his company Erad Supplies and General Contracts Ltd won to supply 40,000 tonnes of maize in 2004.
Waluke was accused of presenting a fake document. It is alleged on February 24, 2009, being the director of Erad, he knowingly and fraudulently prepared an invoice for $1,146,000 (Sh114 million) to be used as evidence in the arbitration dispute between his company and the National Cereals and Produce Board.
Nakuru Town West MP Samuel Arama and lawyer Kennedy Begi Onkoba in June, this year, were accused that on diverse dates in August 2015, they conspired to defraud Ahmed Muhammed Nisar of a plot number 6/95 in Nakuru municipality. The two are facing a total of six counts.
In May, Bobasi MP Innocent Momanyi was charged for allegedly causing malicious damage in a quarry in Kisii. He is also accused of malicious damage to property, assault and actual bodily harm.
In February, Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter, and two businessmen were charged with multiple counts related to forgery of Sh633 million Treasury Bills.
The 11 counts ranged from conspiracy to defraud Central Bank of Kenya, forgery, uttering and making false documents with intent to defraud.
Keter, Madat Saburali and Arthur Sakwa denied the charges when they appeared before Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi.
Andayi gave each of the three an alternative of depositing a bond of Sh5 million.
In February, Ruaraka MP TJ Kajwang who was released on a Sh 50,000 cash bail after spending the night in police custody was charged with being present and consenting to the administration of an oath to NASA leader Raila Odinga with an intent to commit treason. In the second count, the prosecution claimed Kajwang’ took part in an unlawful assembly and organised a public meeting at Uhuru Park without notifying the police.
First term and vocal Embakasi East MP Babu Owino and his bodyguard Fanuel Owino are in court for allegedly attacking David Gichagu at Fortis Towers in Westlands, Nairobi, on January 11.
The two are said to have committed the crime with accomplices who were not in court.
Babu, was separately charged with two other counts of using abusive language and creating a disturbance.The two were released on personal bonds of Sh20,000 each. Mwingi Central MP Gideon Mulyungi and his Makadara counterpart Gorge Aladwa are also in court.
Mulyungi, a former Principal Secretary was in October last year charged with hate speech directed at President Uhuru Kenyatta. He was released on a Sh200,000 bail.
Aladwa on the other hand is accused of incitement to violence in the run up to last year’s general election .
The MP – who is also the ODM chairman Nairobi – was charged with incitement to violence arising from remarks he made at a rally in Kibera on October 8, last year, and is out on a Sh500,000 bond.
Kisumu senator Fred Outa, former Deputy Governor Ruth Odinga, Kondele MCA Joachim Oketch are facing charges of incitement and disruption of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission training during the repeat 2017 presidential elections.