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A Swiss national charged in a magistrate’s court in Mombasa with luring 11 Kenyan women into prostitution has moved to the High Court to challenge the Sh1 million bond slapped on him on Thursday.
His lawyer Lumatete Muchai told Justice Martin Muya that the bond amount imposed by the junior court for his client’s freedom was excessive and discriminatory compared to the Sh100,000 slapped on each of the women he allegedly tried to conscript into prostitution and who are, jointly, charged with him.
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