Fact Check: Was Nabii Nabwera arrested for battering his wife?
A photo that has been going round social media showing that Lugari parliamentary aspirant Nabii Nabwera had been arrested for battering his wife [Photo-Courtesy]

Fact Check: Was Nabii Nabwera arrested for battering his wife?

A photo has been going around purportedly indicating that the aspirant was recently arrested for beating his wife.

A photo going round with the information that Lugari parliamentary aspirant Nabii Nabwera was recently arrested by police officers from the Mlimani Police Post in Mautuma Ward for assaulting his wife is misleading.

Information shared widely on social media purportedly indicated that the ODM aspirant was apprehended for battering his wife.

Thorough scrutiny by the Western Kenya Times reveals that the photo used was that of 2016 by The Star when Nabwera, then Kakamega County chief of staff, was arrested following chaos that erupted at Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula’s bid launch on Sunday, April 10, 2016.

Nabii was taken to court under heavy police escort as a suspect behind the lobbing of teargas at the crowds and VIP podium at the Muliro Gardens in Webuye and freed on an Shs 20,000 bond, The Star reported.

Nabii was by then supporting Raila Odinga’s Coalition of Reforms and Democracy (CORD).

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  1. Herman Libulele

    Don’t you also as reporters , mess when you don’t refute early enough? This can also imply that you have been compromised with abribe to change the fact after he fought with his wife.Get facts too from the said wife to refute the allegations.

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