By Grace Gilo
Ruth Kamande, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend, Farid Mohammed, in 2015, has graduated with a law degree.
The graduation ceremony took place at Kamiti Maximum Prison.
She was among several inmates who graduated via a program organized by Justice Defenders, a non-governmental organization dedicated to training paralegals and lawyers to assist vulnerable communities in accessing legal services, also recognized the achievements of other inmates and prison staff.
They obtained a law degree from the University of London.
“We are here to celebrate this new chapter with a new story which all of you have participated in rewriting,” Kamande said.
“We are not only here to celebrate graduands from the University of London but also graduands who have successfully studied law behind bars. Graduands who are well transformed, rehabilitated and reformed,” she added.
Kamande also made news when she was crowned Miss Lang’ata Women’s Prison in 2016.
She was convicted of her husband’s murder and sentenced to death but has since had her sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
During her trial, Kamande insisted that she had committed the murder in an act of self-defence following a domestic altercation with her boyfriend.