DONDE DAUGHTER RELEASED

Two Kenyan students who had been held in Malaysia on drug trafficking
allegations have been released.

Former Gem Member of Parliament Mr Joe Donde told journalists that
his daughter, Deborah Donde, and her friend, Emily Gathoni, were
released after tests for marijuana turned negative.

The two had been arrested at the house of a Saudi Arabian friend, in
which four kilogrammes of marijuana were found.

On Monday, Foreign Affairs minister Raphael Tuju said the two
students had tested positive for marijuana and were facing the death
penalty if found guilty.

Drug traffickers in Malaysia face either death or life imprisonment
when convicted. So far, Malaysia has executed 100 culprits, a third
of them foreigners since 1981 when the anti-drugs laws were enacted.

The release of the two comes barely hours after Tuju announced that
yet another Kenyan, Olivia Munoko had been jailed for life in China
after she admitted being in possession of 1.8 killogrammes of heroine.

Munoko was a fourth year Bachelor of Arts student at the University
of Nairobi.