Babu Owino Extends Generosity to Former Cop Who Once arrested Him
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Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has chosen to repay a police officer with Kindness, years after the police officer arrested and detained him.
Speaking in an interview with Patrick Igunza and Philip Mwaniki, Babu Owino revealed that the cop arrested him a day before he sat for his KCSE exams in 2005.
Owino explained that at the time, his mother had resorted to selling chang’aa to make ends meet and raise her children.
On the eve of the KCSE exam, police conducted a raid in Nyalenda slums in Kisumu where they lived, and in the swoop, he was taken into custody.
After spending the night behind bars, Babu started screaming in the police cells, demanding to get out and sit for his exams. The police officer shut down his request, saying, “You think you’re the only person who goes to school?”
Babu Owino was rescued by the Officer Commanding Station, who released him and dropped him at Kisumu Boys High School, where he sat for the Biology paper in the same clothes he had been arrested in.
Despite the challenging circumstances, Babu scored an A- and went on to university, where he laid the foundation for his political career.
18 years after the incident, Babu Owino said he had recently been contacted by the police officer who detained him and initially refused to grant him freedom.
The cop introduced himself in a phone call and reminded the MP of the incident. Afterwards, he asked Owino to help him pay school fees for his children.
“That cop the other day asked me for a bursary. I got a call out of nowhere; he asked me if I remember him. He told me how he arrested me and how things were.
“He told me he doesn’t have money because he retired from the police service, and asked me for a bursary, and I’m going to give him,” the MP said.
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