An MP has proposed that petty offenders be assigned community work instead of congesting prisons with hundreds of remandees.
Didymus Barasa of Kimilili said the lot form the majority of inmates in Kenyan prisons, with others serving sentences as low as one month.
"They should be put on probation and be assigned community jobs as a way of reducing the population of our prisons," the MP said at Nasianda primary school.
The legislator issued a Sh1.6m cheque from CDF for renovation of the school's classrooms and for the launch of tree planting exercise.
He proposed that lot be tasked to be cleaning the courts, chiefs offices, clearing bushes in schools, or police stations as a punishment.
He lauded President Uhuru Kenyatta for pardoning petty offenders in prisons across the country.
On Friday, 13 inmates were freed from the Bungoma GK
Prison following a presidential pardon.
