Some of the prisoners who were freed on a presidential pardon at Lang’ata Women’s Maximum Prison in Nairobi. PHOTO | SALATON NJAUA day before President Uhuru Kenyatta pardoned 7,000 petty offenders, Anne Wangari, who was an inmate at the Lang’ata Prison gave birth to a girl. She had already served a month and was set to serve another month after she was arrested in Mathare North. Njeri, whose husband lives in the UK, said she was arrested in Kangemi and that she had stayed in prison for five months. At the Lang’ata Women Prison, they sang as they walked to the gate together, as those who were still serving their terms looking at them with envy.

Source: Daily Nation October 22, 2016 08:37 UTC