Rolls of bhang found on a suspect during a crackdown in Eldoret town on November 6, 2015. Thika schoolboy who was found with 10 rolls of bhang last weekend has been arraigned in court. [Photo/nation.co.ke]A secondary school student who was arrested with ten rolls of bhang was on Tuesday arraigned before a Thika court.The 17-year-old high school student appeared before the Thika senior resident magistrate Anne Maina and pleaded guilty as charged.The court heard that on September 19 in Umoja estate in the outskirts of Thika town the area assistant Chief Waithaka Kamau, got information from informers that the student was peddling bhang amongst his peers where he decided to investigate the matter.Youthful plain cloth officers were sent on investigation mission who posed as customers intending to buy the drug from the student and immediately 'bought' the prescribed drug after which they identified themselves as police officers and apprehended him.Upon frisking him, 10 rolls of bhang neatly wrapped in a polythene bag was discovered stashed inside his school bag.He was handed over to Makongeni police station where with consultation with Children officer’s charges were preferred against him.His lawyers attempt to plead with the court to drop charges against the minor yielded no fruits as the court ordered that he be handed over to the probation officers as he awaits his case to be heard on October 20.

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