A businesswoman accused of trafficking cocaine worth sh 80,120 four years ago has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
Sitting at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport,(JKIA) Senior Principal Magistrate at Njeri Thuku found Scola Imbiti Namunyu guilty of the offence of trafficking in narcotics drugs.
She was found guilty after the prosecution called a total of eight witnesses.
The Magistrate said the prosecution was able to prove that Scola dispatched an envelope with cocaine for delivery to Malindi.
Scola 50, was first arraigned in court in 2019.
Her charge sheet indicated that on June 12, 2019, at around 5 pm, at a booking office along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway within Nairobi county jointly with others not before the court, Scola was found trafficking 20 grams of cocaine with a market value of Sh80,120.
She denied the charge.
Scoal according to the court records is a freelance designer. She is a single mother with three children aged 22, 17 and 8 years respectively.
The prosecution called a former employee of a transport company as a witness to support their case.
Kelvin Kaloki was at the time a booking clerk.
His duty was to book tickets and receive parcels.
He narrated how Scola presented a parcel at 3:30 pm on the fateful day.
The envelope had contents but he did not know what it was.
The parcel, he said, was destined for Malindi. The address was handwritten on the parcel.
The envelope which was part of the evidence produced in court read ‘To Noel Mbekure Malindi, from Rose Nairobi’.
Kelvin said he received the parcel and issued Scola with a receipt and she left.
But the convict was to come back with officers from the Anti-Narcotics Unit after they intercepted her along Mombasa road.
Kelvin said the time between when Scola presented the parcel to him and when she returned accompanied by the police officers was one hour.
In convicting her, the Magistrate said Scola was guilty of trafficking by delivering.
The court further dismissed her defense that she didn’t visit the booking office.
