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 Cabinet Secretary nominee for Public Service and Gender Aisha Jumwa has revealed her net worth.

Appearing before National Assembly committee on appointments Tuesday afternoon, the former Malindi MP revealed that she is worth Kshs. 100 million.

She told the committee members that her current source of income is her pension from Parliament.

Jumwa who is facing hurdles in a journey to the Cabinet Secretary post over graft and murder charges that have been staring at her.

However, she was handed a major reprieve after DPP Haji applied to withdraw graft charges against her.

Aisha Jumwa murder charges

On Tuesday just hours before she was vetted, she breathed a sigh of relief again as she likely to be turned into a prosecution witness in the murder case.

She has been facing the charges before Mombasa High Court for two years.

Ms Jumwa asked the Director of Public  Prosecutions Noordin Haji to consider reviewing the case with a view of converting her into a state witness.
 
Through her lawyer Jared Magolo , the Public Service nominee told Justice Ann Onginjo that after taking the evidence of three witnesses, it is clear that the suspect should serve the state as a witness.

State Counsel Vivian Kambaga told the court that the DPP has been informed that Ms Jumwa and the family of Jola Ngumbao (deceased) have been engaged in negotiations with a view of settling the matter out of court.

DPP to consider reviewing the murder charge

The Prosecutor confirmed that they have received a letter asking the DPP to consider reviewing the murder charge against Ms Jumwa.

According to the prosecutor , the ODPP has received communication from the decease family that they feel that Jumwa was not armed during the incident , did not shoot and , therefore was not a principal offender.

She is accused of killing Mr Ngumbao in 2019 during campaigns for Ganda Ward by-election. She is accused jointly with her aide Geoffrey Okuto. At least three witnesses have testified in their case.

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Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji has approved murder charges against Malindi Member of Parliament Aisha Jumwa.

The MP found herself in trouble last year when an uncle to an Orange Democratic Movement aspirant in Ganda ward mini polls was shot dead.

She was arrested at her Kakuyuni home in Malindi after a 48-year-old man was shot in the chest and killed.

Police announced that the MP and her aide Geoffrey Okuto Otieno were under investigation for the murder of Ngumbao Jola at the homestead of Reuben Mwambire Katana, the ODM candidate for the Ganda ward by-election.

The firearm used to shoot the uncle to the then ODM candidate belonged to the lawmaker.

The cartridge of the firearm ammunition packaging is licensed to the MP.

The man was shot dead on October 15, 2019, during chaos involving the MP and Orange Democratic Movement supporters at Ganda in Kilifi county.

The incident had occurred at the Penduliani home of an ODM candidate for the Ganda ward by-election Reuben Katana. Katana and other leaders were allegedly meeting agents to prepare for the mini poll.

Jumwa and her team are reported to have forced themselves into the home following reports that a team of ODM leaders were meeting youths. Earlier, armed police officers had visited the home.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission had declared that Monday as the final day for campaigns. However, the police had later provided security after being informed that the meeting had nothing to do with campaigns.

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Malindi Member of Parliament Aisha Jumwa has not been attending any parliamentary committee meetings, report tabled by National Assembly Majority leader Amos Kimunya has revealed.

According to the report tabled on Thursday, the rebel ODM MP is reported not to have attended any meeting by the Members Services and Facilities Committee from January to October 2019.

Jumwa’s disloyalty to her party made her ejected as the representative to the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) in June.

However, in the changes that were announced on July 15, she has been moved  to the committee on Parliamentary Broadcasting and Library.

Others who did not attend any meetings were Makadara MP George Aladwa who sits in the Departmental Committee on Lands and his Ruaraka counterpart Tom Kajwang (Ruaraka) who is in the Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC).

Also highlighted were Emgwen MP Alexander Kosgey who was recently moved to the Procedure and House Committee from the Trade and Industry docket and Turkana North MP Christopher Nakuleu who will now serve in the Trade committee as well as the Public Accounts Committee.

Alfred Sambu (Webuye East) and Abdi Tepo (Isiolo South) who are both in the Committee on Delegated Legislation did not attend any meetings accordig to the report.

Makueni Woman Rep Rose Museo who sits on both the Labour and National Cohesion committees and Maison Leshomo (Samburu), Agriculture and Livestock and the National Cohesion committtes retained both positions in the new line-up.

Enoch Kibunguch (Likuyani) was also spotted as having absconded the committee meetings in that period. He was moved to the Special Funds Accounts Committee in the new changes.

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Malindi Member of Parliament Aisha Jumwa has angrily attacked the police for extorting extorting money from Malindi youth who can’t afford face masks.

Jumwa in a video posted on her social media accounts exposes the police deployed in Malindi for being the most corrupt.

She claims that instead of the police helping out the residents, they are harassing and exposing them to more danger.

According to her, some residents have been duped into wearing their inner wears as face masks just to avoid being arrested.

This, the lawmaker says. puts the residents at more risk of contracting covid-19.

Some, she says, are using just any pieces of clothes, which have been not recommended by World Health Organization.

“Right now, someone can pick underwear or any piece of cloth and wear it, and they will be deemed to be in compliance with the directive simply because they have their noses and mouth covered.

“These substandard masks that people are wearing is putting Kenyans’ lives at risk. I was of the opinion that the government would be issuing masks that meet the World Health Organization (WHO) standards before issuing these directives.

She further claims that the police service is the weakest link in the fight against covid-19 pandemic.

She says the police think they are helping matters but they are only making things worse for the country.

“What is happening here in Malindi is only bringing strife amongst the residents. If there is an organ that is the weak link in the fight against the pandemic it is the police service.

“They think in their minds that they are helping matters but they are only making things worse for the country,” Jumwa stated.


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Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Raila Odinga will today (Saturday) honor the hero who ‘paid the ultimate price for ODM’s victory’ in the just concluded Ganda ward by-elections.

Ngumbao Jola, who was felled by assassin’s bullet in Ganda Ward on October 16 will be laid to rest in a ceremony set to be attended by Raila.

ODM through their official twitter handle confirmed that their Party Leader will be there to honour the hero.

“Today, Saturday October 26, we lay to rest our Shujaa Ngumbao Jola, who was felled by assassin’s bullet in Ganda Ward on October 16. Our Party Leader @RailaOdinga will be there to honour the hero who paid the ultimate price for our victory in Ganda. May his memory be blessed,” reads the ODM tweet.

Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa was arrested alongside Otieno, her gardener and domestic worker after Ngumbao was shot dead.

Ngumbao was shot dead during a fracas that erupted at the home of ODM candidate Reuben Katana in Ganda ward.

Trouble started after Jumwa stormed the home to disrupt the meeting between Katana and ODM agents for the by elections, saying the campaign period was over.

Jumwa and her bodyguard, Okuto Otieno, were later granted Sh1 million bond and a surety of a similar amount with the alternative of Sh500,000  bail each after spending one night behind the bars.

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Raila Odinga-led Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party has won big in the just concluded by-elections held in Ganda ward in Malindi and Abakaile Ward in Daadab Constituency.

In the race to determine the MCAs of the respective wards, ODM’s Reuben Mwamure Katana won the Ganda ward race as Mohamed Sheikh won the Abakaile ward seat.

ODM through their official twitter account have congratulated their candidates, urging them to now go and serve the people that elected them.

“Congratulations Reuben Mwamure Katana and Mohamed Sheikh Ali for your victories in Ganda Ward in Malindi Constituency and Abakaile Ward in Daadab Constituency respectively. We are proud of you. Now go and serve your people,” tweeted ODM.

The Malindi by-election recorded a high turn out of voters despite the heavy rains that hit the area.

Hundreds of voters braved the heavy rains and flooded roads to reach polling stations to exercise their democratic right.

Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa ended up being arrested on Wednesday and later freed on bail on Thursday following a fracas when she stormed the home of ODM candidate Reuben Katana in a bid to stop campaigns.

Katana’s uncle was killed in the process.

She said the campaign period was over. 

Jumwa was released on bail on Thursday and declared, “No retreat, no surrender.”

ODM’s Katana defeated Abdulrahman Omar – independent, Joseph Kiponda of Jubilee party and Kadu Asili’s David Mitsanze.

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Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa and her bodyguard, Okuto Otieno, have been granted Sh1 million bond and a surety of a similar amount with the alternative of Sh500,000  bail.

“The two shall be released but they must present themselves to DCIO in Malindi on October 22… any further summons shall be issued,” Mombasa Senior Resident Magistrate Vincent Adet said on Thursday.

Adet said that the police shall have the liberty to charge them if they have the evidence.

“It’s illegal for the police to have someone they don’t have evidence against to be held without a charge. Police must only arrest when they have evidence against suspects. The Constitution disallows this,” he said.

Jumwa and her bodyguard, Okuto Otieno, spent the night in the cells as they awaited arraignment on Thursday morning.

The two were held at the court police station.

The prosecution sought to have them detained for 21 days pending investigations.

Jumwa was arrested alongside Otieno, her gardener and domestic worker after one person was shot dead on Tuesday.

The man was shot dead during a fracas that erupted at the home of ODM candidate Reuben Katana in Ganda ward.

Trouble started after Jumwa stormed the home to disrupt the meeting between Katana and ODM agents for the Thursday’s by elections, saying the campaign period was over.

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Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa spent the night in police custody over the violence that broke out at Ganda ward in Malindi on Tuesday evening.

A man was shot in the shoulder and killed during the chaos and several other people, including police officers, were injured. Jumwa had stormed a meeting organised by Reuben Katana, an ODM candidate in Thursday’s by-election.

Gumbao Jola, 48, died upon arrival at Malindi General Hospital. He was Katana’s uncle.

The MP arrived at the meeting in a convoy of three vehicles. Thereafter, chaos erupted and police officers were forced to shoot in the air several times. The lawmaker is the chief campaigner for independent candidate Abdulrahman Omar, according to her lawyer Jared Magolo.

The MP, whom the police described as confrontational and fond of making inciteful statements in public, accused Katana of campaigning long after the campaign window period had been closed.

Katana was hosting more than 500 people at his home. Jumwa and her bodyguard, Geoffrey Otieno, are suspects in Jola’s murder.

The two were arrested on Wednesday at 1.50am, taken to Port police station in Mombasa before they were arraigned at 2.30pm, her lawyer said. Initially, there were reports that four people had been arrested, but only two were arraigned.

Jumwa and her bodyguard were, however, not charged as assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Alloys Kemo applied to have them detained for 21 more days, pending investigations.

In a sworn affidavit, Kemo said the police want to hold the MP and her bodyguard as they investigate four charges — murder, incitement to violence, breach of Election Offences Act and breach of electoral code of conduct.

“Police have intelligence that the first respondent’s (Jumwa’s) agents are planning to disrupt the Ganda by-election tomorrow. They are regrouping at Takaungu,” Kemo said.

He added that security agents at the coast cannot guarantee the security of Jumwa and her bodyguard because the Malindi residents are baying for their blood.

“A large crowd gathered at Malindi police station on Tuesday night chanting that they want to avenge the death of Gumbao Jola. The two should be detained because the situation in Malindi is tense and volatile,” Kemo said.

He added the police need enough time to conduct an autopsy on the body and carry out a ballistic investigation on the firearm used to kill Jola.

“Police also need to find out if the second respondent (Jumwa’s body guard) is a licensed gun holder. A ballistic investigation will be conducted on the gun and the bullet cartridges that were recovered today at 2am,” he said.

However, Jumwa’s lawyer Magolo described the DPP’s application as “hopeless.”

“The application is actually crying for dismissal.  This court should not agree to be allowed to take sides in an election contest.

“We know there are people who want to take away Jumwa from Malindi because she is the chief agent of a candidate in Ganda’s by-election,” Magolo said, adding the DPP is dishonest in his submission.

“They have admitted that was an illegal gathering. It was taking place after the official closure of campaign period. Jumwa is an MP and a chief agent of a candidate in that election and had gone to seek answers, but she was then attacked,” Magolo said.

Jumwa is represented by four lawyers in the case. Her second lawyer, Gikandi Ngubuini said the are no records to show that Jumwa is confrontational.

“No records have been produced to show the first respondent has ever been found guilty of incitement. No evidence has been filed in this court from any person to show that once the MP is released there would be violence in Ganda,” Ngubuini said.

On Wednesday evening, Mombasa senior resident magistrate Vincent Andet said he would make a ruling on whether to release Jumwa on bail or continue holding her as requested by the DPP today.

“It’s already late in the evening and I’ve not been able to go through all the submissions. I would request that I deliver a ruling tomorrow (Thursday) at 8.30am,” Andet said.

According to Jumwa, the meeting was aimed at planning violence against her supporters with a view to ensure her candidate loses.

`The embattled legislator has been branded a rebel and ousted out of Raila Odinga’s party for supporting Deputy President William Ruto’s 2022 presidential bid. 

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Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa is being detained at the Kilindini Police Station in Mombasa following her arrest on Tuesday night after an Orange Democratic Movement supporter was shot dead.

The chaos which led to the fatal shooting of the ODM supporter broke out after the legislator stormed a meeting organized by the party officials at the home of its candidate for Thursday’s Ganda Ward by-election.

Jumwa was arrested at her home in Kakuyuni and taken to the Malindi Police Station before being moved to Mombasa.

Reports indicated that violence erupted moments after Jumwa stormed the meeting at Pendukiani village in Ganda at about 5pm demanding that the meeting be stopped because election campaigns officially ended on Monday.

It is alleged that Jumwa and her supporters confronted the ODM leaders who were at the time meeting with over 300 supporters under tents.

Those present included Mombasa Deputy Govenor William Kingi, Magarini MP Michael Kingi, Kilifi North MP Owen Baya, former Malindi MP Willy Mtengo and several ODM officials from Nairobi and Mombasa.

During the fracas, Ngumbao Jola was reportedly shot on the chest and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Malindi Sub County Hospital.

Tension is high in Malindi and the entire Ganda ward following the death as ODM leaders claim Jumwa is responsible for the shooting.

They claimed the meeting was meant to recruit agents and not a rally as alleged by Jumwa.

Vincent Safari Katana, a relative of the deceased, was at the meeting and said everything was well until Jumwa arrived with her supporters.

He said the incident occurred at about 5 pm when they were planning how agents would be deployed to different polling stations.

”I saw Aisha Jumwa and goons, they started chaos and disrupted the meeting. At that time, there were about eight police officers who were trying to keep peace,” he said.

He said Jumwa was hostile and wanted to fight other people, including women leaders who were present.

Hamisi Musa, another ODM supporter who was at the meeting, said they were not in a rally and no MP or leader present addressed political matters.

He wondered why the MP had stormed the meeting, leading to the death of one of their own.

The deceased is said to be a relative of Katana.

At the Malindi Police station, ODM leaders who had camped there to record statements, accusing the police of failing to act against the MP.

Magarini MP, who was leading the delegation, said Jumwa should be held responsible for the death.

Kingi said he was also assaulted while defending two supporters who were being sought by Jumwa supporters.

However, in a quick rejoinder, Jumwa dismissed claims that she shot the ODM supporter during the fracas.

Jumwa said she spent the better part of Tuesday in Watamu and while taking lunch at Crab Shack Restaurant, her supporters who were in the meeting, sent pictures informing her of the ongoing rally.

The MP, who spoke at her home, said she called the OCPD Malindi to inform him about the meeting but they took no action.

”By evening when the police failed to act, I called the OCPD again and told him I would take action because campaign period is over and that’s why I stormed the meeting,” she said.

During the chaos, Jumwa said police officers asked her to leave as they would handle the situation and by the time she left no one had been shot.

She asked investigating agencies to conduct investigations to establish who pulled the trigger.

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Raila Odinga-led Orange Democratic (ODM) party has pitched camp in rebel MP Aisha Jumwa’s constituency in a mission to hunt for votes in upcoming Ganda ward by-elections.

The party’s Secretary General Edwin Sifuna alongside party’s Executive Director Oduor Ongwen camped in the ward drumming up support for their candidate Reuben Mwamure Katana.

The by-election will be held on Thursday 17th October.

“SG @edwinsifuna ED @ongwen and other party top officials continued with their vote hunting mission in Ganda Ward of Malindi Constituency today. They drummed up support for our candidate Reuben Mwamure Katana. The by-election will be held Thursday 17th Oct,” reads ODM ‘s post on twitter.

Jumwa who has declared her support for Deputy President William Ruto is viewed as a rebel in ODM. She supports immediate former MCA Abdulrahman Mohamed whose election was nullified by a  Mombasa court.

The Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission declared the seat vacant in July.

Reuben Katana was declared the ODM candidate after contenders Ibrahim Kaniki and Erastus Katana alias King’ale dropped out.

Mohamed who was elected through ODM is seeking reelection as an independent candidate.

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Malindi Member of Parliament Aisha Jumwa on Tuesday was the talk of the day after she met ODM party leader Raila Odinga, a move that shocked many Kenyans.

Jumwa who is a rebel member of the ODM party is currently allied to deputy president Dr William Ruto. Her meeting with Raila at her Parliamentary Service Commission Office on Tuesday afternoon came after Raila’s ODM Parliamentary Group meeting at County Hall which Jumwa never attended.

In a tweet that was immediately pulled down, ODM said that the rebel MP was back to the party since it was her DNA and that she had vowed to support and campaign for ODM candidate in Kibra by-elections Bernard Imran Okoth.

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But later on, Aisha Jumwa denied having dumped DP Ruto nor endorsing Imran for Kibra seat.

She said through her social media account that Raila had only made a surprise visit to her Parliamentary Service Commission Office and that she was not even aware of the ODM Parliamentary Group meeting at County Hall.

Well, was the Opposition leader’s meeting at Malindi MP’s office a coincidence or was it planned?

Reports by a local daily says that Loyal women MPs allied to Raila were not amused after he visited the office of the rebel Malindi MP yesterday. 

Aisha seemed to have been in communication with Raila. After the  ODM Parliamentary Group meeting, Raila went straight to Aisha’s swanky office.

Surprisingly, this happened despite Aisha’s boycott of the ODM PG.

The women MPs were grumbling in the corridors of Parliament, wondering how Aisha manages to capture the attention of top political bosses across the divide.

She’s DP William Ruto’s cheerleader at the Coast and shortly after meeting Raila, she met Ruto alongside other Jubilee legislators in a bid to support Jubilee candidate McDonald Mariga’s Kibra parliamentary race.

Then what was it that ODM said she had vowed to campaign for Imran?

“This evening I did join the Deputy President William Ruto and other legislators and meet up with Devine church elders and pastors at Mash Park Hotel Nairobi in a bid to support Mariga for Kibra Constituency,” reads Aisha Jumwa’s facebook post.

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Details of Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa’s attempts to scuttle Team Embrace weekend rallies in coastal region have emerged. Jumwa who defected from Raila Odinga’s ODM camp to Deputy President William Ruto’s camp is said to have been running a campaign to reduce the opposition party’s stranglehold of the region’s politics.

Team Embrace, a group of women leaders drumming support for President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga’s handshake has been holding rallies across the country calling for peace and advocating support for Building Bridges Initiative.

But according to Ms Jumwa, Team Embrace is a fallacy and accused coastal women leaders of “betraying those who elected them in order to please outsiders”.

The Malindi MP told politicians from other parts of the country that Kilifi “has its owners”.

Team Embrace was in Kilifi and Mombasa counties during the weekend, drumming up support for the handshake.

It however emerged that Jumwa had paid a group of women from the region to heckle Team Embrace during their rally in Kilifi.

“It is wrong for Jumwa to give women money to come and heckle us during our meetings,” Homa Bay Woman Representative Gladys Wanga, who is the head of the group said.

Her Murang’a counterpart Sabina Chege accused Ms Jumwa of promoting violence at Inua Mama team meetings. Inua Mama team is another group of women leaders drumming support for DP Ruto.

It is said that Ms Jumwa paid the women hecklers then left for Nairobi to act innocent.

“Why would you fan fire against your colleagues and then leave for Nairobi pretending to be innocent?” the Murang’a Woman Representative posed.

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Deputy President Dr William Ruto’s camp, led by ODM “rebel” Aisha Jumwa, has suffered another blow after two of its erstwhile backers, Kilifi North MP Owen Baya and Women Representative Gertrude Mbeyu, rejoined ODM leader Raila Odinga’s camp ahead of Kilifi mini poll set for October 17.

The Ganda ward seat fell vacant following a successful petition challenging the election of then-ODM candidate Abdul Omar. Mr Reuben Katana, who ran on a Kadu Asili ticket but lost, filed the petition.

Mr Omar, a close ally of Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa, has since decamped from the Orange party and will contest for the seat as an independent candidate.

On the other hand, Mr Katana has rejoined ODM and secured its ticket to contest the seat. Mr Joseph Kiponda alias Giuseppe’s will vie on Jubilee Party ticket.

In an interview with Daily Nation on Friday, Gertrude Mbeyu vowed to make sure the ODM candidate wins the by-election.

“I am an ODM member and I will support our ODM candidate to win the seat. As we speak now, I am from an Embrace rally in Kakamega. The team is coming to Kilifi at the end of this month,” she said.

Ms Mbeyu accused Ms Jumwa of chasing her out of the Ruto camp on grounds that she had “no votes” to offer the DP.

“If a friend tells me that I don’t have any vote to enable the DP to win the 2022 General Election, then let it be. But I want to tell the friend that she will be in for a surprise,” she said in a statement.

“I am embracing Raila and the President in supporting the Handshake, so my duty as an ODM member is to make sure that my candidate wins the Ganda by-election.”

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