‘Raila Warned Me About Babu Owino’s Bloody Hands,’ Says Gaucho in Explosive Tell-All

In what is shaping up to be one of the most damaging insider exposés to rock the Orange Democratic Movement’s fractured grassroots, Calvince Okoth, better known as “Ghetto President” Gaucho, has publicly and permanently cut ties with Embakasi East MP Babu Owino, accusing him of orchestrating staged arrests, inciting violence against allies and weaponising grief in a community still reeling from the death of Raila Odinga.

In a tell-all video that has since gone viral, Gaucho, once described as Babu’s most loyal soldier and self-proclaimed “cell mate,” delivers a string of allegations so grave they threaten to upend the MP’s carefully curated image as a street-level champion of the Luo poor.

The Dead Man’s Warning

The most devastating claim in Gaucho’s video centres on a private conversation he says he held with the late ODM leader Raila Odinga before his passing in October 2025.

When Gaucho sought Odinga’s counsel over growing friction with Babu Owino, he says the veteran politician was blunt and final in his verdict.

Raila Odinga.

“Raila told me to avoid that boy completely,” Gaucho says in the recording. “He told me his hands are full of blood. He warned me that Babu is a person who can plan your downfall while smiling with you.”

The allegation is explosive precisely because it invokes a voice that can no longer respond.

Raila Odinga’s death has left the Luo community deeply divided, with factions fighting for legitimacy in his name. Gaucho’s invocation of a deathbed-style warning from the patriarch himself is calculated to land like a thunderclap.

A 2022 Arrest ‘Scripted Like a Drama’

Gaucho’s second major allegation takes aim at one of the defining moments of Babu Owino’s political mythology, his arrest during 2022 anti-government protests, widely celebrated as proof of his commitment to the streets.

Gaucho says the arrest was theatre.

“He knew people were turning against him for not voting on the Finance Bill. So he coordinated with someone in the government to ensure he was arrested. He wanted to look like a hero again,” Gaucho claims.

More chillingly, he alleges that while both men were in custody, Babu arranged for hired goons to assault Gaucho inside the police cells, specifically to deepen the narrative of state persecution, while the MP himself remained safe in a separate cell.

Babu Owino has not responded directly to these specific allegations. His office did not issue a statement before publication.

A Community on Edge

Gaucho’s exposé lands at a moment of acute pressure within the Luo community and within ODM itself.

The party is already riven by a bitter internal dispute, with the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal recently reinstating Secretary General Edwin Sifuna after the ODM National Executive Committee moved to have him ousted in February.

Babu Owino and Sifuna lead the rival “Linda Mwananchi” faction, which has positioned itself squarely against the broad-based government and the pro-Ruto wing of ODM associated with Raila’s brother, Oburu Odinga.

The blood price of that political battle is now impossible to ignore.

An autopsy on George Olande Otobe, killed during the Linda Mwananchi rally in Vihiga County on February 21, established that he died from multiple severe head injuries consistent with mob violence after allegedly stabbing a fellow attendee, Hussein Hassan, during an altercation.

The DCI confirmed the death and, in a statement, accused the rally organisers of allowing their supporters to carry weapons into the venue, contrary to constitutional requirements.

It was the second fatality linked to the Linda Mwananchi tour: on February 15, 28-year-old Vincent Ayomo was shot dead by police in Kitengela during a separate rally.

Gaucho has placed himself firmly on the other side of this divide.

He has come out publicly in defence of Interior PS Raymond Omollo, the very official Babu Owino accuses of orchestrating the alleged abduction of his brother-in-law, Geoffrey Ajiki, days before the Kakamega rally.

Ajiki was eventually released in the early hours of the morning and found in Machakos County, with no formal charges disclosed and no official statement issued by the DCI or Interior Ministry.

Gaucho dismisses the entire episode as a sympathy hunt, arguing that Babu manufactures victimhood to consolidate his grip on the ODM youth base.

‘Stop Dragging PS Omollo Into Your Political Battles’

Going further in a separate public statement, Gaucho trained his fire on what he describes as Babu’s insatiable appetite for political dominance and his reckless use of tragedy as a campaign tool.

“Hon. Babu Owino should stop seeking relevance by constantly dragging the name of PS Dr Raymond Omollo into his political battles,” Gaucho declared. “Leadership is built on ideas and solutions, not noise and personal attacks.”

Gaucho reserved particular contempt for what he sees as Babu’s simultaneous war on multiple fronts, against ODM’s Oburu Odinga-led faction, against the Nairobi county government, and against the national administration.

“His open hostility toward Party Leader Dr Oburu exposes a deeper struggle for control, wanting to be party leader, kingpin, and governor all at once, while opposing cooperation between the Nairobi Governor and the National Government. You cannot fight all crowns at the same time and still claim to serve the people. Attempting to dominate every political space only exposes insecurities, not strength,” Gaucho said.

The statement cuts to the heart of Babu’s current political positioning.

The MP has in recent weeks declared his candidacy for the Nairobi gubernatorial seat in 2027, using high-profile press conferences to accuse Governor Johnson Sakaja of corruption while simultaneously keeping his foot in the Linda Mwananchi camp.

Gaucho’s charge, that Babu is running too many races at once, echoes a concern whispered in ODM corridors for months.

“Kenyans need solutions, not endless political drama. They deserve jobs, education, and platforms for growth, not slogans, incitement, and street politics,” Gaucho continued. “Using their frustrations as political fuel is not leadership; it is betrayal.”

The Kingpin Nobody Can Surpass

Gaucho’s most pointed warning, directed at university students and young men with political ambition, strikes at the core of Babu’s brand.

“If you are a smart young man with influence, you are in danger around him,” he says. “He doesn’t want anyone else to rise. He will either link you to a crime or ensure you are frustrated so he remains the only kingpin.”

In his separate statement, Gaucho broadened that indictment to the entire Luo generation. “Most worrying is the continued use of Luo youth as tools for personal ambition. Our young people deserve empowerment, not manipulation for political mileage.”

The language of “victim politics” runs through the entire exposé. Gaucho’s central charge, that Babu Owino views the youth not as partners but as props, is a direct assault on the MP’s brand as a grassroots reformer.

The Machine Begins to Crack

Gaucho’s defection represents something more than a personal feud. He was, by his own account, an enforcer for the ODM youth wing, a man embedded in the machinery that mobilised crowds, managed optics and kept the grassroots loyal.

His pivot towards the broad-based government camp and his defence of PS Omollo signal that the infrastructure Babu Owino has long relied upon is beginning to fracture, and that the fracture is being exploited by his political opponents with surgical precision.

“Babu, I was your friend. I know how you play,” Gaucho says in his closing salvo. “But the people are waking up. You can’t use our blood to climb the ladder anymore.”

In a final gesture that carried its own political sting, Gaucho closed his statement not with a rallying cry but with a condolence. “I send heartfelt condolences to the family that lost their loved one in Kakamega. May God grant them strength and comfort during this difficult time. May the departed soul rest in peace.”

It was a message aimed squarely at the same crowd Babu Owino was hoping to command, and Gaucho delivered it first.

Babu Owino had not publicly addressed the video at the time of publication. He remained focused on his Linda Mwananchi movement, demanding the release of his security officers detained in Kisumu following the Kakamega rally, saying they had been held without charge or explanation.

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