OMAR BAKARI MWAKURO V. REPUBLIC

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

[1] Omar Bakari Mwakuro who is the appellant before us was charged with the offence of trafficking in narcotic drugs contrary to section 4(a) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (Control) Act No. 4 of 1994. He was convicted by the Chief Magistrate Malindi on his own plea of guilty. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in addition to a fine of Kshs.one million. Being dissatisfied he appealed against his conviction and sentence to the High Court. His appeal was dismissed by the High Court sitting at Malindi (Meoli, J). He has now come before us appealing against the judgment of the High Court and seeking to have his conviction quashed and sentence set aside.

[2] The appellant has filed two sets of grounds of appeal. The first set which was filed by the appellant in person on 28^th January, 2014 raised three grounds as follows:

• That the honourable judge erred both in law and fact for failing to see that the imposition of a life imprisonment on me by the tr…