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Weed millionaire: Police looking for man growing 'holy herb' in quarter acre farm

Police in Homa Bay County are looking for a farmer, who grew weed in his backyard plot in Pap Ndege Village in Kalanya Kanyango Location. 

According to neighbours, they thought the evergreen quarter acre farm, irrigated using water from a nearby pond was a tobacco plantation. But after further investigation, the curious neighbours discovered that the green, leafy, plants which had grown up to three feet tall, were not tobacco, but fully grown cannabis sativa plants, popularly known as bhang.

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