George Odunda, a judge for the High Court, has suspended the 18 month probation for a form four student found to be in possession of bhang on Tuesday, August 25, 2015.
The girl had been photographed after allegedly attempting to hide four rolls of bhang worth KSh 80 in her genitals. The 18 month long probation sentence had been challenged in court by CRADLE, a children’s right group.
Duncan Okubasu and Gladys Waimaitha, the lawyers for the girl, said that police had: “exposed her privacy to cameramen in the name of trying to recover the hidden drugs.”
The lawyers further claim that the officers involved in the photographing of the girl had stripped her in public.
Okubasy and Waimaitha have stated that their clients rights to security, human dignity, privacy and access to justice were violated by the officers, reports the Daily Nation.
The girl has been seeking KSh 7 million in compensation in the case. She had been travelling on a Nairobi bound bus with several other students when it was stopped by police. The students were found to be partying within the bus at the time it was stopped.
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