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Man jailed for extorting Senator Anwar Loitiptip

Anwar Loitiptip [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

A man accused of sharing a video of Lamu Senator Anwar Loitiptip smoking shisha in the company of a woman identified as Aeedah ‘Bambi’ Pesian Ahmed, has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment.

Jones Mbolo, who appeared before Nairobi magistrate Martha Mutuku on Wednesday, pleaded guilty to attempting to extort money from Bambi so as not to share the video purportedly taken at a city restaurant of the personality contravening the law by smoking shisha.

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