Inmate pardoned by Uhuru back in Prison For Farming Bhang

On February 8, barely a month after his release, he was arrested again for the same offense at his home at Kevote village in Embu North.

Adsalam Walkman a marijuana farmer who was one of the beneficiaries of the presidential pardon that saw many hundreds of inmates released from different prisons is back in the bars after being recommitting and convicted of the same case that led him to prison in 2013.

While appearing before Embu Principal Magistrate Samuel Mutai, the 28-year-old Adsalam Walkman was found guilty of cultivating 60 large stems of cannabis sativa. But in the first conviction six years ago for the same case, Adsalam asked the court to give him two sentences.

He further committed and his argument was that after serving “two jail terms” police should not arrest him again for the repeat offense and also threatened to continue with the trade once he completed his jail term.

Many ex-convicts who were pardoned have seen themselves back to prison for committing the same cases or different one’s proving they are not right to exist in communities but only in prisons.

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