A Chinese national arrested on Wednesday after being found in possession of three pistols and 30 rounds of assorted ammunition, which he could not account for, appeared in court on Friday charged with contravening the Firearms Act.
Chan Huo, who was not asked to plead when he appeared before Kisumu chief magistrate Thomas Obutu, was remanded to Monday for continuation of his bail application.
The prosecution alleged that Huo, who is the country working on construction projects contravenes sections of the Firearms Act.
The court heard that on June18 this year at around 2 o’clock in the afternoon, police officers were carrying out routine inspections on a Kisumu roadblock, and it was during the inspection that the police details recovered 1146 x 7,62mm and 29 934 x 7,65mm rounds of ammunition.
They also discovered 323 x 12-bore rounds of ammunition, 20 by 9 x18mm rounds of ammunition and 1x243mm rounds of live ammunition.
The firearms and ammunition are said to have been stashed in the back seat of the car Huo was driving.
The court also heard that among the findings were three unregistered firearms, a CZ pistol and two FN Browning shotguns.
Huo told the court that his firearms were registered in his parent country of China and the licence was back home.
However, Obutu dismissed his defence by saying that, it was not time for him to defend the allegations labeled against him.