{"id":975893,"date":"2022-02-04T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/eala-mp-florence-jematia-released-on-bond-banned-from-attending-rallies\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:39:49","slug":"eala-mp-florence-jematia-released-on-bond-banned-from-attending-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/eala-mp-florence-jematia-released-on-bond-banned-from-attending-rallies\/","title":{"rendered":"EALA MP Florence Jematia released on bond, banned from attending rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/cpuju6ol947twfybwp61fcef67a6387.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>EALA MP Florence Jematia when she appeared before an open-air court at the Kabarnet Law Courts on February 3, 2022.<\/strong> [Harun Wathari, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA) Member of Parliament Florence Jematia has been released on bond after spending two days in a police cell.\n<\/p>\n<p>The court, however, banned Jematia from attending any political rally or setting foot in Baringo South pending police investigations. <\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker was also directed to report to the local DCI office every day, from February 7 to 11, according to a ruling by Senior Residents Magistrate Nerolyne Idagwa.\n<\/p>\n<p>Jematia\u00a0was apprehended in Nairobi, on Wednesday for alleged incitement remarks she made at Lomoiywet in Baringo South in January.<\/p>\n<p>The embattled lawmaker was arraigned in an\u00a0open-air court at the Kabarnet Law Courts\u00a0on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor George Mongare had asked the court to issue custodial orders to allow police to detain Jematia as they conclude investigations into the matter.\n<\/p>\n<p>But Jematia was captured on a video clip asking residents of Mochongoi in Baringo South Constituency, to raise funds to purchase firearms. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want a PayBill number. We want to buy guns for every household in Mochongoi all the way to Baringo North&#8230;If you own a motorbike then you can purchase a gun,\u201d she was captured saying.\n<\/p>\n<p>On Friday\u00a0Jematia who was represented by Frank Boiywo, Tunen Kiplagat, Kipkemboi Sirma and Allan Ochieng, was\u00a0released on one million bond with a surety of a similar amount.\n<\/p>\n<p>On January 4, bandits attacked Yatia in the same sub-county, killing herder Vincent Tuwit, 24.\n<\/p>\n<p>On December 11 last year, AP officer David Omondi was shot dead in Chepkesin, Baringo North. He was with his colleagues on a routine security patrol.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001436484\/eala-mp-florence-jematia-released-on-bond-banned-from-attending-rallies\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EALA MP Florence Jematia when she appeared before an open-air court at the Kabarnet Law Courts on February 3, 2022. [Harun Wathari, Standard] East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA) Member of Parliament Florence Jematia has been released on bond after spending two days in a police cell. The court, however, banned Jematia from attending any political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}