Customers convicted for refusing to pay lunch bill

Two Kenyans have been jailed for one month for failing to pay a $1.30 lunch bill. The Standard reports that Peter John and Martin Mwangi refused to pay kiosk owner Vincent Mulwa after claiming that he didn’t offer them pepper. Mulwa told the court that the customers followed him into the kitchen and threatened to stab him. Mwangi reportedly told Magistrate Edgar Kagoni that ‘I was too drunk at the time of the incident and I did not know I was misbehaving’. However, notes the report, Kagoni said ‘people like you should be dealt with sternly’.

Full report in The Standard