Pubdate: 17 November 1999
Source: Daily Telegraph (UK)
Copyright: of Telegraph Group Limited 1999
Contact:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Author: Paul Harris, Nairobi

PREACHER HID CANNABIS IN BIBLE

A Kenyan street preacher has been jailed for two years for hiding cannabis
in his Bible.

Eric Museto, who belongs to a local African church, had pleaded that he was
a first-time offender and the drug was for his own use. But Jane Ondieki, a
Nairobi magistrate, said the offence had been compounded by its blasphemous
nature. Smoking cannabis, known locally as bhang, is common in Kenya, but
is illegal.

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