Kenyan to have three witnesses testify on drug case

THREE witnesses, including one from Kenya,  will testify in the drug case involving a Kenyan woman who was arrested at the Mactan Cebu International Airport late last month.

“We will invite one witness from Kenya to prove my client’s financial capacity,” said Ricardo Amores, lawyer for Asha Atieno Ogutu.

During yesterday’s preliminary conference at the sala of Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge Toribio Quiwag, Amores said Ogutu has a clothing line in Kenya.

Amores said various evidence were marked in front of the court for the Kenyan’s upcoming case. Amores said Ogutu told him that her luggage had been transferred to six different planes before reaching Cebu.

From Kenya, Ogutu had stopovers in Benin and had a connecting flight from Dubai going to Doha, Qatar and then to Cebu.

Amores said Ogutu came to Cebu as a tourist looking for business opportunities.

Ogutu told reporters anew that she missed her two children and was saddened after the Kenyan embassy refused to help her.

Ogutu was arrested after three kilos of shabu were found in her travel bag at the airport by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).

A pre-trial conference  will be held at RTC branch 27 at 9 am on Oct. 27. Reporter Jucell Marie P. Cuyos