- A 31 -year -old Kenyan woman from Nakuru was arrested in Singapore for allegedly transporting a cloak hidden in packed masks
- Joyce Njeri Mburu was among five women trapped at Changi Airport with boxes with approximately 27 kilograms of cocaine
- His family in Bahati said it knew about his arrest several weeks later and they did not know he had left the country
- Njeri is on the verge of waiting for his remarks in court on December 16, with the death penalty near if he is found guilty
A 31 -year -old Kenyan woman is facing the possibility of hanging in Singapore after being arrested on suspicion of transporting a crocodile hidden inside filled masks.
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Joyce Njeri Mburu from the County Nakuru He was arrested on Tuesday, July 29, at Singapore’s Changi Airport along with four other women, including three other Kenyans and one Hong Kong citizen.
Why was Joyce Njuru Mburu arrested in Singapore?
According to Singapore’s main drug office (CNB), the five suspects were trapped in the Terminal 4 transport zone as they exchanged boxes with drugs hidden in soft masks.
The Saturday Nation report reveals that the group was found with approximately 27 kg of cocaine and 10 grams of marijuana.
Preliminary examination involved 275 to 380 tablets between 5.9 and 7.9 kg of cocaine.
Under the Singapore drug abuse law, the illegal trafficking of more than 30 grams of cocaine attracts a mandatory death penalty.
Njeri is currently being detained while investigations are underway. His case is scheduled for December 16.
How did the Njeri family know about his arrest?
In his home ten miles, a small county of Luckher family says they did not know that their daughter had left the country.
His mother, Rahab Wangui, when she was struggling with the pain, said she knew about her daughter’s condition several weeks after being arrested.
“He never revealed to anyone that he was leaving the country, he phoned his sister just after his arrest,” He said.
Wangui said Njeri has been living in Nakuru, where he worked to raise his two children.
However, the family was worried after stopping the phone in late July with his phone being turned off.
In August, a month after his arrest, his younger sister Njeri, who lives in Nairobi, received a call from her to tell her about her arrest.
Then the sister traveled to Nakuru to tell their mother the news.
“He may be celebrating his birthday today, but here we are still dealing with the darkness how he landed in Singapore and he got medicine,” The frustrated mother said.
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Wangui also revealed that she spoke to her daughter in September during a short phone rang from the ranks.
She said that her daughter only asked to talk to her children before urging them to pray for her during her suffering.
“We didn’t talk too much, he had just been given seven minutes, he just told me that he was in the country and the embassy had visited them, in our conversation he told me the date of the mention of the case was scheduled for December 16, we just wait,” He said.
The family said it had not received any formal communications from the Kenyan government or legal representatives about its case.
Singapore enforces some of the most strict drug laws in the world and if found guilty, Njeri can be executed by hanging.
A Kenyan woman is sentenced to death
In a related incident, Margaret Nduta Macharia was sentenced to death in Vietnam after being convicted of transporting two kilograms of drugs.
He was arrested in July 2023 at Tân Sơn Nhất airport in Ho Chi Minh City when more than 2 kg of drugs were found hidden in his jacket during a security inspection.
Nduta insisted that he did not know what was in the luggage, saying he was employed by a man in Kenya by the name “John” who paid him about KSh 167,000 to submit a case to a woman in Laos.
Prosecutors rejected his allegations, saying not knowing he did not abandon him under Vietnam’s strict drug law.
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