Police in Naivasha, Nakuru county have arrested 32 students who were binge drinking alcohol and smoking bhang.
In a statement released on Tuesday, July 26, police say the students from Mirera Mixed Day Secondary School were arrested at a classmate’s birthday party on Monday evening.
Of the 32 students, 21 are boys while 11 are girls, police said.
Police further reported that the birthday boy, a student, lives alone at the said location where his parents pay rent.
Naivasha Sub-County Police Commander Samuel Waweru while confirming the incident said most of the students were in Form Three, with a few in Form Two.
“We recovered several rolls of bhang and unopened alcohol bottles,” said Waweru.
“During the arrest, most of the students were intoxicated, and couldn’t make an informed judgement,” Waweru said.
The youngest of the suspects was aged 16, while the oldest was 19.
In a detailed report, The Standard said that the students are being held at Mirera police post, as police engage the school’s administration and the county children’s office.
In a separate incident, a man in Eldoret sent the court in stitches of laughter and shock after he admitted to smoking bhang as part of his campaign for presidential aspirant George Wajackoyah whose plan is to legalise marijuana for commercial purposes if elected into the country’s top office.
47-year-old Boniface Mutua further told Eldoret Senior Resident Magistrate Christine Menya that he is a staunch supporter of Wajackoyah adding that he smokes marijuana to promote the Roots Party’s manifesto.
Mutua was nabbed by police on July 11 at Bahati estate in Ainabkoi sub-county, Uasin Gishu County after he was found with three rolls of bhang worth Ksh90.
The accused who pleaded guilty to the charges against him said he wants to be the first commercial farmer of marijuana if Wajackoyah becomes Kenya’s president.
“For now, I smoke bhang to gain courage and voluntarily campaign for Prof Wajackoyah, who has promised to legalise the cultivation and smoking of bhang,” he said.
The court urged Mutua to stop smoking marijuana until his candidate is elected and manages to legalise the drug.
“You will be sentenced after your own plea of guilty since for now, it is illegal to trade and abuse bhang without a prescription from a doctor,” the magistrate told Mutua.
The case will be mentioned on July 27 after the magistrate receives a pre-sentencing report from probation officers.
