Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino has taken a swipe at National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula after he was ejected from Parliament.

The lawmaker was on Tuesday afternoon ordered by Wetangula to leave the parliament chamber for improper dressing. This is after he was spotted dressed in an advocate's attire.

He was ordered to leave the Parliament chambers after Mathare Member of Parliament Anthony Oluoch called him out and urged the Speaker to address the matter promptly. 

"If I look at the Speaker's panel, including yourself, you are dressed in a collar. Is it in order that the member from Embakasi East walks and sits in the house dressed as the speaker? We need guidance on whether this forms part of the proper dressing code of this house," Oluoch lamented.

National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula speaking on the floor of the house on Thursday, May 29.

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Parliament of Kenya

Meanwhile, Babu Owino, in his response through a clip shared on Tuesday evening, lamented the Speaker's decision, claiming his ejection from the Parliament was unwarranted.

According to the vocal lawmaker, he spent more than five years studying as an advocate, and it was unreasonable to send him out merely for dressing as a lawyer.

While commenting on the matter, the MP termed Wetangula's move as laughable and ironical since the Speaker himself was also clad in a similar attire.

"Today, the Speaker ejected me for dressing in a bib, it is quite funny because it took me six years, including 4 years in undergraduate and 2 years in the Kenya School of Law. A total of six years for me to earn this dress code," Babu Owino said.

"The whole of parliament, over 300 MPs, just went to the shop for five minutes and bought a tie, while it took me six years to earn this. So you wonder who was supposed to be sent out, because the speaker was also dressed in the same way," he added.

The youthful legislator went ahead to term his removal from parliament as a politically motivated decision, further maintaining that he had since forgiven Wetangula.

Babu Owino was admitted to the bar in May this year alongside 609 others in an event that was presided over by Chief Justice Martha Koome, and other senior judicial officers.

Since graduating as a lawyer, the MP has actively participated in court proceedings, including in the ongoing case of Ndiangui Kinyagia, whose whereabouts are yet to be established.

Babu Owino at the Milimani Law Courts on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.

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Babu Owino