Kenyans have launched a campaign to save Nairobi woman set to be hanged in china
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| Photo courtesy of Nairobi news |
Using the hash tag #FreeMSOwino on Twitter and a Facebook
page “Let’s Bring Floviance Owino Back Home”, Kenyans said it was
undeserved for Chinese government to hang a Kenyan for trafficking drugs yet
those convicted of poaching here in Kenya get lighter sentences.
@fmkmutuju tweeted ”How about death penalty for Chinese
poachers?”
David Majabs wrote “Chinese have messed up more in Kenya
than drug trafficking yet none has been executed.”
The family of Ms Owino, a former second-hand clothes dealer in
Nairobi told Nairobi News, that they received a call from Beijing
China saying their sister will be hanged in the next few days.
She has been in custody for two years for what the caller
said was trafficking in drugs.
On Facebook, Ms Owino’s sister, Judith Owino, posted a photo
of her daughter, a smiling tot and has captioned it ‘Shantel, 3 years ago…..
She needs her mom to be there for her.’
Judith Owino on Facebook said her sister was allured to drug
trafficking by a Nigerian man and his girlfriend.
LURE WITH MONEY
“They take advantage of one’s vulnerability and suffering
and offer and lure people with money, and in return they task these people with
smuggling drugs. Unfortunately Floviance Owino was one of their victims. And now,
all alone and in trouble in Beijing, China, She is facing a death sentence,”
she decried.
MS Owino appealed for cash help to facilitate her family to
travel to China, to hire a lawyer and appeal the case. Many of Ms Owino’s
friends were shocked to hear about the incident.
@NjiruNyaga on Twitter was less forgiving and tweeted; “Ms
Owino committed a crime, convicted in accordance to a state’s law solution:
Only China can decide irrespective of ties with KE.”
@ochieng_philip tweeted “We can’t allow Chinese to perform a
ritual with our own citizen for them to continue with their segregation,”
Ochieng was referring Chinese restaurant which does not
admit Africans after 5 p.m., insisting they pose a security threat to its
clients. The hotel has since been closed for not having an operating license.
Mr Washington Oloo, the director of Diaspora Services has
said that Kenyan Embassy in Beijing was handling the matter.
Source: Nairobi News
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