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Former Tanzania inmate Don Bosco Gichana who was jailed for five years has declared interest in the Kitutu Chache North parliamentary seat.

Speaking to People Daily Digital, the flamboyant businessman cum-politician said that he will run for the seat on a United Democratic Alliance (UDA) ticket.

“I will be running for the seat in the August 2022 general elections and I’m in UDA,” he said.

The parliamentary seat is currently being held by Jimmy Angwenyi of Jubilee Party and a close ally of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

This is not the first time Gichana is running for a parliamentary seat. In 2013, he contested for the Kitutu Chache South parliamentary seat but he lost to Richard Onyonka who is currently serving his third term in parliament.

Onyonka has also announced that he will be running for the Kisii County Senatorial seat on an ODM ticket in the 2022 general elections.

The decision by Gichana to instead run in Kitutu Chache North and not South was driven by the fact that his native home is in the North.

In 2013, he ran in the South because he was a resident there and had also made inroads within the constituency.

Gichana, who was a close ally of ODM leader Raila Odinga and his late son Fidel Odinga first hit news headlines when he awarded a hammer to Odinga ahead of the 2007 general elections.

In an earlier interview immediately after he was released from prison, he opened up on how no politician apart from Wiper Leader Kalonzo Musyoka visited him in prison.

His woes started when went to Tanzania to visit his friend known as Median Mwale who is currently in prison over money laundering.

However, on his way back to Kenya, officers in Tanzania pounced on him at the Namanga border and arrested him. He was taken to Arusha Police Station and later to Dar es Salaam.

He was then arraigned in the Kisutu Law Courts and charged with conspiracy and money laundering.

It is worth noting that he was also ordered to pay a fine of Ksh13.7 million.