Former Kenyan presidential candidate Mohamed Abduba Dida, who ran for the top seat in 2013 and 2017, has been released from prison in the United States after serving three years of a seven-year sentence.
Dida was freed from the Big Muddy Correctional Center in Illinois on March 4, 2025, where he was detained after being found guilty of stalking and intimidating his American wife in the Midwestern US state.
According to his wife, Amina Liban, the politician is now living in Minnesota and focused on rebuilding his life and reviving his charity work.
“Yes, he was released on March 4, 2025, on parole. He is living in his house in Minnesota. He had started the Dida Foundation International and had completed registration just before he was arrested,” she said.
Convicted in 2022 after being arrested in 2021 following a complaint by his American wife, accusing him of stalking, issuing threats, and violating a restraining order, Dida served part of his sentence at East Moline Correctional Center before being transferred to Big Muddy.
