As the clock ticks away, it’s a race against time for a last-minute dash to save Margaret Nduta from the noose of the hangman after being convicted of drug trafficking thousands of kilometers from home in Vietnam.
Nduta was sentenced to death by hanging after she was found guilty of possessing narcotics in Vietnam an Asian country where drug trafficking is an extremely serious crime punished by the ultimate death penalty.
In her defense, Nduta says she was going to work in Vietnam and was given a parcel to in Ethiopia to deliver to Vietnam little did she know that it contained drugs and was arrested and charged with drug trafficking.
Nduta is expected to be executed this Sunday night at 8:30Pm unless something dramatic happens between now and then.
President Ruto is said to have contacted the Vietnamese authorities to try and intervene, but his Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Korir Sing’oei described the issue as complex and difficult making the situation look even more grim.
And back home, her Karikwe village in Weithaga, Murang’a County is deeply traumatized as the clock ticks away to the execution later today.
Her fellow villagers have described how confused and pained everybody is, with her mother’s only prayer is that she is brought home and jailed in Kenya.
“Nduta is from my home village, Karikwe, Weithaga. Our village is in pain. Confused. This is something we have never heard or witnessed before. The prayer of her mother is she is brought back home and in the least to be jailed in Kenya,” said Jane Wanjiku.
“This is so sad. I pray that the govt can be able to negotiate and have her back here. Counting hours to your daughter’s death is traumatising,” added Wanjiku.
The issue of drug trafficking is a dangerous one and cases of people being duped to carry them by evil dealers are know to happen from time to time.
Traffickers trick innocent travellors to hold bags for them then they vanish and you get arrested or they recruit you to be their mule and you might even make some money but once caught it is death sentence in many countries.
