A middle aged man was on Wednesday arrested by police in Mirithu village, Ndeiya ward in Limuru subcounty after being found to have planted bhang claiming that it was God whom had ordered him to plant and sell to people.
The suspect Njoroge Mbugua who is being held at Tigoni Police station awaiting to be taken to court is said to have planted the herb for two years and have been selling it to the local residents.
Police were tipped off by members of the public with area sub chief Leah Nguhi saying that it was difficult to know that the suspect was planting the herb as it was planted at an area which is inhabited and only herders go at the area.
Nguhi said that the suspect posed as a mad man and had planted the bhang while surrounding it with thorny bushes where one would not have suspected.
-Stanley Njenga