Kenyan Drug Peddler Rejects Offer for Lesser Sentence, Chooses Life Imprisonment

A Kenyan man convicted of drug trafficking on Monday shocked the court after he dismissed the prosecutor’s attempt to have him handed a lesser sentence instead of life imprisonment.

Appearing before Makadara Law Court, Moses Wasilwa pleaded guilty to charges of trafficking 12 rolls of bhang along Haile Selassie Avenue in Nairobi, refusing to plead guilty to a lesser charge of being drug possession which would have landed him less time in prison.

Prosecutor Jackline Nyika requested Senior Principal Magistrate Jackline Kibosia to put the file aside to talk Wasilwa into a possible plea bargain. She wanted the accused to change his plea of drug trafficking and instead plead guilty to possession of bhang, which carries a lesser prison term or a non-custodial sentence.

Wasilwa turned down the offer saying he was ready to serve life imprisonment unless officers from Kamukunji Police Station return his bhang and KSh15, 00 he claimed they stole from him during his arrest.

Further to this, Wasilwa claimed that he was in possession of 200 rolls bhang and not 12 rolls as reported by police. He will be sentenced once the probation department tables his social inquiry report.