A 25-year-old man was on Tuesday arraigned before Winam law courts in Kisumu where he was fined 15,000 after he pleaded guilty of breaching the code of conduct of the Kenya Veterinary Board (KVB).
Walter Ouma was arrested on Monday in Kanyamethe in Kisumu where KVB officers and police conducted a crackdown and found him castrating a dog.
Ouma appeared before Resident Magistrate Catherine Njalale where he pleaded guilty of two counts but denied one.
On the first count, Ouma was charged with practicing Veterinary Medicine without a license from KVB and was slapped with Sh10,000 fine.
He was then charged with unlawfully possessing veterinary injectable poisons which is contrary to KVB regulations and was fined Sh5,000.
Ouma was finally charged with not storing poisons properly as KVB requires a charge which he denied.
“I am a medical student and in our area their are not vets around. My friend therefore called on me to go attend to his dog and that is when prescribed the drugs and took them to him,” stated Ouma.
Magistrate Njalale directed him to provide Sh10,000 cash bail for the count which he denied failure to which he will remain in custody.
“You are hereby given 14 days to appeal against the verdict and your case will be heard again on June 19,” stated Magistrate Njalale.
The KVB Regional Inspector Dr. Ekhuya Amutete said cases of quark veterinary doctors were rife and urged citizens to be cautious not to be duped adding that residents should only seek services from qualified, KVB complaint specialists.
Consequently, he pointed out that KVB has been trailing Ouma, who had been advertising his services via social media where he claimed to have performed very complicated surgeries and authored a veterinary book.
On his social media pages, Ouma alluded to his clients that if given chance he could even bring Sudan (the dead white rhino) back to life.
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