Bhang Dealers Slapped With 50 Years In Jail
A court in Wajir county found two men guilty of transporting bhang in the country.
Lydia Kadima 
The men will serve a fifty-year jail term in prison and pay a 63 million fine.The magistrate in charge of the ruling, Senior resident magistrate Mugendi Nyagah, found the accused guilty of the crime.
According to the Directory of Criminal Investigation (DCI), the accused, Mohammed Oloo and Abraham Hassan were found in possession of a batch of the illegal drug worth 21 million. The lorry carrying the drugs had been divided into several partitions in bags of cement to make them unrecognizable.
An early April case, last year, shows that they were also found with seven hundred kilograms of the drug. The lorry owner has been given 14 days to secure his vehicle, whereas one of the accused failed to show up for the court proceedings and detectives are on the watch out for him.
The sentence has aroused a discussion among Kenyan citizens on its unfairness. One even quoted the constitution say on the imprisonment of such cases to be a maximum of 20 years. Other citizens criticized the ruling wondering why the traffickers were given such harsh sentencing while the corrupt officials causing the huge country losses do not get sentences of the same magnitude.
In another case that citizens think of as an unfair ruling, the girl found guilty of treason and murder during the 2017 Moi Girls Nairobi fire was given a 5-year sentence.
As much as some people are glad that the court finally reached a verdict, most are still unsatisfied, terming it as way lenient for someone who started a fire that claimed the lives of ten innocent souls and left hundreds of others traumatized.
