By Willis Oketch
Mombasa Chief Magistrate Stephen Riech has ordered deportation of a Belgium national when she completes six months in jail in default of Sh30,000 fine.
Riech gave the orders after Ms Sharon Lea Bahbout admitted that she was found in Kenya illegally.
She was accused that on March 28, this year, at Coast Regional Immigration office in Mombasa she was found in Kenya illegally.
Prosecutor Kipkoech Sang told the court that the accused had earlier presented herself to the immigration department to renew her visa in order to travel back to her country.
On checking her passport it was discovered that she had been in the country unlawfully since February 29. Following the discovery, Sang said, the accused was charged with the offence of being in the country illegally, to which she pleaded guilty.
The accused pleaded for leniency, saying she was remorseful.
In the same court, Mr Riech ordered two Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) employees and a businessman to appear before Senior Principal Magistrate Joyce Gandani on April 2 for the mention of their case.
The magistrate ordered them to appear before Mrs Gandani, who has been appointed as the magistrate in charge of Anti Corruption following the transfer of Lilian Mutende from Mombasa to Malindi.
The accused are Edwin Macharia, a businessman, Cecil Ndungu and Nicodemus Lwayo, KPA clerks.
They have denied that on diverse dates between April 2, 2009 and May 3, 2009 at Kilindini Harbour, they stole 5,820 bags of imported sugar worth Sh25 million on transit from Durban in South Africa to Zanzibar. Macharia faced a separate charge that on the same date, he evaded paying Sh25.6 million payable to Kenya
