About 60 middle-aged men found drunk and disorderly were on Tuesday committed to community service after pleading guilty to the offence before a Kiambu court.
Principal magistrate Charity Oluoch ordered the convicts to clean up Kiambu town for the offence they admitted to have committed on October 5 2014 after they were arrested in Banana, Karuri and Ruiru areas.
The community service order was started six months ago by the probation department, in collaboration with the Kiambu law courts, and aims at engaging petty offenders in a meaningful way that can be sustained.
The exercise is conducted every first Monday of the month where offenders arrested over the weekend from different parts of Kiambu are sentenced to a one-day community service.
Speaking to the offenders outside Kiambu law courts, resident magistrate Monicah Kivuti urged them to consider that as any other type of work and to perform it diligently.
“The service is for the community’s well-being so that they can appreciate the programme,” she said.
The resident magistrate reminded them that they could still be sentenced to serve a jail term if they were problematic during the whole day exercise.
Some of them attended to chores within the court premises while the others, in groups of ten, proceeded to Madaraka Gardens along Kiambu-Kirigiti road.
The offenders were involved in digging, slashing, collecting and burning of litter. They were supervised by police officers from Kiambu police station.