Fatuma Idd, a Tanzanian national, is reportedly serving a 50-year jail term along with a death sentence in Kenya for a crime she says she did not commit.
Fatuma was arrested alongside her Kenyan husband in Loitoktok, and since then, her life has completely changed as she spends her days behind bars.
According to reports, Fatuma had traveled to Kenya to visit her aunt. While there, she met a man and fell in love with him, unaware of the type of work he was involved in. She believed she was in a normal relationship and had no idea that danger awaited her.
The man allegedly used Fatuma to help move trucks to certain destinations. She claims she had no knowledge of what was being transported inside the trucks. Fatuma says she trusted him completely and never imagined that she could be in trouble for his actions.
One morning, around 5:00 AM, Fatuma and her husband were asleep when there was a knock on their door. When Fatuma opened it, officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) were standing there.
Both she and her husband were arrested, and she did not understand why they were being taken away.
Fatuma was taken to Loitoktok police station while her husband was sent to a different station for interrogation. When the police searched their house, they found fake car number plates. It was then that Fatuma realized her husband had been involved in car theft, a fact she says she had no idea about.
In court, Fatuma was shocked to learn that she had been charged alone. All charges that should have been applied to her husband disappeared, leaving her to face robbery with violence and handling stolen property alone.
Despite her pleas of innocence, Fatuma was sentenced to a 50-year jail term and the death penalty for the two crimes.
Her husband, however, walked free, and no one intervened on her behalf. Today, Fatuma remains behind bars, a victim of circumstance and a system that many believe failed her.
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