Vietnam, Kenya’s law and dilemma

Margaret Nduta, condemned by drug vendors in the Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam, reacted by drugs, will face gallows after they were catching it in July 2023 at the airport of the city of Ho Chi minh allegedly smuggling of drugs in the country.

From his arrest, and the subsequent conviction, which explicitly established his punishment, death, Kenyans, from the government to everyday people on social networks, have recovered around their cause, many requesting the Government to intervene and avoid their death penalty. The government also broke impotent, trying to reach the Vietnamese authorities and resolve the matter more diplomat.

Virtually all were agreed: high -ranking lawyers, political experts, diplomatic experts, civil society, online activists and that random drunk in the neighborhood pub.

Despite its best efforts, this has remained an arduous task.

Those who know have agreed: this is not a simple matter and it is not something that can simply solve with a random transoceanic phone call and sweet government.

It all started after, according to the reports, a naive Nduta agreed to transport a suitcase to a woman in Laos, the capital of Vietnamese, after receiving some ksh.168,000 and the complete remuneration of travel of a man only identified as John.

Despite maintaining that she did not know the content of the suitcase, the court found her guilty of drug trafficking on March 6, 2025, and sentenced her to death.

The sentence immediately eliminated a rapid series of reactions of all Kenya, first, of the members of his family who turned their home into an ad hoc press lobby, since the following days passed in a relentless campaign, asking the government to intervene and save their daughter while they also agreed a Kenyan sentence, provided they could visit their daughter at ease.

But even when he groaned and launched a passionate crusade, Nduta’s mother, and her relatives in general, needed to be aware of a crucial fact: Vietnam has the most hard drug laws in the world, and any person declared guilty of possessing or smuggling more than 600 grams of heroin or cocaine or more than 2.5 kilos of methamphetamine to the thickness of death of death.

For the context, Nduta had been arrested with two kilos of cocaine.

As the case gathered the impulse, and the dominated holders, some Kenya legislators took note of the developments and took the matter directly to Parliament, taking their time on the floor to draw attention to the difficult situation of Nduta, while caught the attention of the speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetangula.

His appeal was simple and direct: Kenya’s government needed to move quickly before Nduta faced lethal injection, and time was running out.

The nominated deputy Sabina Chege declared: “The Committee should communicate with the Ministry immediately because this is a death sentence to a Kenyan and the deadline was, yesterday, so I request that this be passed immediately to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs so that they can begin to handle the matter and especially reach the family.”

At the same situation, the president of the National Assembly Moses Wetag’ula, addressed the Defense, Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committee to intervene, ordering the vice president of the Bashir Abdullah committee to contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the case.

“Bashir gets all the statements, he contacts foreign affairs because even if we are at recess, the committees are still working; once he has an answer, he communicates with the interrogator and brings an answer to the home on the first day of sitting after recreation,” he said.

Even when the senior government and parliamentary officials recovered, sending directives and fighting to make phone calls from one end to the other, yet, the Vietnamese seemed imperturbable, apparently preferring to attach to their rules of hard drugs of a decades and ignoring any emerging diplomatic start, especially of a country in which they did not even amphitus an official diplomatic residence of decades.

For clarity, Kenya does not have a diplomatic mission (embassy or consulate) in Vietnam; Kenya’s embassy in Thailand is accredited to Vietnam.

Meanwhile, the Vietnam Embassy in Tanzania is accredited to Kenya, And although the relations between Nairobi and Hanoi are still cordial, the two states do not have bilateral agreements.

The complicated consultative complexities meant that KenyA was not going to solve the quagmire, since, even when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PS was issuing frantic X statements, Nduta’s fate was hitting quickly, and nothing seemed to help things.

Around 7 in the afternoon on Sunday, the Kenyans had begun to wake up properly with the morbid reality of the Nduta sentence, with many floods X with their versions of how the case should have been handled, with others that flatly support or denounce the horrible Vietnamese judgment.

Many now tried to suggest that Nduta should be taken back to Kenya and face Kenya’s judicial system. However, they would be quickly reminded that the laws were applied differently from separate nations and that the constitutionalism of a country cannot be replaced by the whims of its ally, provided that there was enough pressure on social networks.

Other parliamentarians also joined the impulse, leading to their social media platforms, or a funeral, to also pontify the matter and include its two cents.

Babu Owino said: “I want to take this opportunity to ask and request President William Ruto to help Nduta. This lady did not commit any crime. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. “

He also joined the Gatundu North Mp Njoroge Kururia choir, who offered: “My prayers and sympathies go to Magret Nduta’s family. I imagine how her parents and brothers are now traumatized. As a Kenyan who does not have the ability to help Nduta in this situation, I only commit to her with God, for her mercy.”

Despite the useless protests, Vietnamese judicial arm was obviously not paying attention, and seemed to be committed (without word game) its ruling, whether some unhappy Kenyans were launching or not a flood of latest missiles in X.

As the clock approached at 8.30 pm, Kenya’s time, the feeling in Nduta’s house in Murang’a must have been disconsolate, while her family curled up, in silent tones, while waiting for the inevitable, and they looked bleakly in the future of comfort, warmth and roughness of a woman who once proudly called her.

As things are, Nduta is still alive, but his destiny still hangs from a thread of a macabre reality. Many things are still happening; The rallying, the Lisiértano, the prayer, the hope, the supplicant and the worrying.

Will eventually face Grim Reaper or the gods will save it this time? No one seems to have the answers at this time.

But if the Vietnamese remain faithful to their colors, Kenya can lose a soul in the most unimaginable way in history.