Former KTN anchor Saddique Shaban leads Kenyans in freeing hungry man jailed for stealing Kes 40 cabbage (Photos)

Kenyans expressed their disappointment with the country’s judicial system after a casual laborer was handed a jail term by Eldama Ravine court for stealing a piece of cabbage worth Kes 40 which he wanted to cook.

Robert Kihara was arrested after plucking the cabbage from a garden owned by the Mercy Mission Hospital in the Catholic Diocese of Nakuru where his brother Father Francis Mugo serves as a priest. Father Francis defended his action saying he had Kihara put behind bars as a way of rehabilitating him due to his ‘bad manners’

Eldama Ravine court sentenced Kihara to two months in prison. His plight was highlighted by the media prompting Kenyans to call for his release.

Well-wishers decided to bail him out; Saddique Shaban with a group of other well-wishers were at Eldama Ravine court on Tuesday to secure Kihara’s release.

Father Francis, who was in the court on Tuesday when well-wishers freed his brother, fled through the fence of Eldama Ravine court after realizing that a crowd had gathered to witness the incident.

“Here is our person of interest. Robert Kihara is a free man after four days in Prison. We bailed him out because we felt right thing to do. Kenyans must stay woke & ensure the process of law & justice is applied in a fair and humane manner, irrespective of social status,” Saddique Shaban wrote after Kihara was released from Eldama Ravine prison.

Well-wishers also bought Kihara new household items as he said he couldn’t return to his brother’s church compound.