Kenyan MP Jaguar denies incitement charge, released on bail

Kenyan MP Charles Njagua Kanyi has been charged with incitement to violence.

Prosecution told the Nairobi court Wednesday that he made utterances intended to incite Kenyans against foreign nationals living within the country.

The court heard that he committed the said offence on June 24 at Nyamakima within Nairobi County. He was released on a Ksh500,000 (Sh11 million)

He was arrested on June 26 and has been in police custody since then.

The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) as well as the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) are among those set to testify against the legislator.

Jaguar, as he is popularly known, appeared before Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi and denied the said offence.