Rastafarian Community Pays Kibera Lawyer Peanuts to Represent them in Court
The Rastafarian community paid peanut butter, honey, and Akala shoes to Shadrack Wambui, a lawyer in Kibera to represent them in Court.
Christine Juma 
According to the Rastafarians, they want bhang smoking to be legalized as a form of their worship.
Lawyer Wambui appreciated the gifts he got from the Rastas as he states "My heart melted with joy for I know appreciation is better than silver and gold. This act of gratitude from the Rastafari Society of Kenya is the highest pay I have received since I started practicing law for a living."
Wambui as a lawyer representing the less privileged doesn’t choose what he is paid as his clients are marginalized.
"I did not have the option of choosing peanuts, peanut butter, honey, and Akala. My clients are a marginalized community with limited income as they face stigma and sometimes open rejection," he said.
Raw Peanuts. PHOTO FILE
He also added that "Nobody wants to be associated with Rasta. The government has declared illegal what would be a multimillion industry for these groups. I just accept what they are capable of giving me or us the members of Sheria Mtaani." He concluded.
On May 17th the community moved to Milimani Law Courts Seeking the legalization of Marijuana.
In their then petition, they argued that followers/believers of the Rastafari faith use bhang or cannabis by either smoking, drinking, eating, bathing, and/or burning incense for spiritual, medicinal, culinary, and ceremonial purposes as a sacrament to manifest their faith.
They further argue that Rastafarians are a marginalized group that is apolitical thus politically powerless and often subjected to prejudice, intimidation, unwarranted searches of their persons and their homes, and prosecutions because of their spiritual use of cannabis in their private homes or designated places of worship yet the use of herb or cannabis is grounded in biblical redemption and deliverance.
