Orange Democratic Movement party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna has refuted claims that the orange party has abandoned Embakasi East MP Paul Ongili alias Babu Owino.
Throughout the weekend, Mr Owino has spent in a police station where he's waiting to be arraigned in court later on Monday.
Owino is accused of shooting a DJ in a pub at Kilimani before rushing him to Nairobi Hospital for treatment.
But Sifuna insists that the party hasn't abandoned him, arguing that it only distanced itself from the act allegedly committed by him.
"We have not distanced ourselves from Babu Owino, we have distanced ourselves from the act. There is a clear difference between the two," he said.
"Political Parties exist for political purposes. We have a code of conduct and there are things that are beyond the party. When you're drinking in a bar, you're not doing so on behalf of ODM. We don't send people to bars to drink," he added.
The youthful legislator is not new to controversy. In early 2018, he was arrested after he allegedly insulted President Uhuru Kenyatta.
However, the two have since reconciled. Owino is a close ally of Orange Democratic Movement party leader Raila Odinga.