Former Machakos Senator Johnstone Muthama and Belgut Member of Parliament Nelson Koech were on Wednesday freed on a police bond of Sh30,000 each after being held overnight.

They were released after arraignment in Kwale Wednesday morning, a day after they were arrested on Tuesday following chaos that rocked Jomo Kenyatta Primary School polling station during the hotly contested Msambweni by-election.


Johnstone Muthama. PHOTO/COURTESY

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Muthama and Koech spent the night at the Port Police Station, with their colleagues Senators Kipchumba Murkomen and Millicent Omanga lamenting over their arrest on social media.


Belgut MP Nelson Koech. PHOTO/COURTESY 

The Msambweni mini poll was marred by claims of intimidation and voter bribery even as independent candidate Feisal Bader trounced ODM’s Omar Boga to clinch the parliamentary seat that was being sought by seven candidates.

Bader won and was declared winner by IEBC after garnering 15,251 votes against Omari’s 10,444 and was issued with the election certificate on Wednesday morning as his strongest rival conceded defeat.

Bader is the nephew of former Msambweni MP Suleiman Dori, who passed on in March at the Aga Khan Hospital in Mombasa where he was being treated for cancer.