KENYA: DEATH ROW BECKONS FOR ILLEGAL GUN OWNERS

possessing an unlicensed gun could soon earn you the death sentence as the Kenyan government steps up the war on crime. And police officers who hired out their guns to criminals could also join armed robbers on death row. Those who sold illicit firearms will not be spared either, if Parliament adopts proposed amendments to the Firearms Act. Assistant Internal Security Minister Simeon Lesrima said “the law, if enacted, will provide for capital punishment for those in possession, trading, conveying and dealing in illegal weapons.