BY WINSTONE MUSISI
There was drama at the highly guarded Eldoret GK remand prison when a daring 27- year-old woman was arrested by hawk-eyed prison officers while attempting to sneak bhang into the correctional facility.
Lucy Cheruto, who was carrying her one-year-old baby had gone to the 24/7 manned correctional facility to visit her husband, an inmate serving a sentence after he was found guilty of being in possession of narcotics too.
The woman was nabbed by hawk-eyed prison guards following a tip-off who upon interrogation, recovered more than 180 rolls of cannabis Sativa inside her six-month-old baby pumpers as well as a jacket that the minor was wearing.
The Officer-in-charge of the correctional facility Mr. Barnabas Keino surrendered the suspect to Eldoret central police station officers who arraigned her in an Eldoret court where she was charged with an attempt to sneak in narcotic into Eldoret main prison.
According to Mr Keino, the guards’ suspicions were triggered when they saw the pumpers of the minor were surging abnormally.
When female officers at the gate checked the pumpers they were perplexed to find the rolls of bhang stashed in the pumpers.
Cheruto was arraigned before Eldoret Senior Principal Magistrate Mogire Onkoba and charged with trafficking narcotic drugs contrary to section 4(a) of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substance control act of 1994.
The court heard that on February 6 at Eldoret main prison, she was found in possession of 189 rolls of bhang hidden in the underwear of the minor in her possession with a street value of Sh9, 450.
The woman who was unrepresented pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released on an Sh200, 000 bond with an alternative cash bail of Sh150,000.