He says cultivating bhang became his main source of income after his search for employment yielded little.
On his small parcel of land, he says, conventional farming offered limited financial prospects, while cannabis gave him better returns.
Officers raided the property after a tip-off and allegedly found a flourishing cannabis plantation and seized 34 kilograms of cannabis, with an estimated street value of Sh1,032,000.
Geoffrey Lingori, 58, walked into an Eldoret courtroom on Monday with the calm demeanour of a man who had long made peace with an unlikely choice he says was born out of years of joblessness.
While many of his peers may be looking towards retirement, the trained mechanics graduate has been tending a very different kind of crop on his quarter-acre plot in Malel village, Kapseret sub-county.
