NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 6- Businesswoman Mary Wambui is expected in court on Thursday to face charges of being in possession of an unregistered firearm.
Wambui was arrested from her Runda home and questioned by detectives before being taken to the Muthaiga Police Station where she spent.
She is expected to face two charges of illegally possessing the weapon and another one of owning 22 bullets.
Her lawyers Nelson Havi and Kipchumba Murkomen visited her. She had surrendered her firearm to police on December 15, a day after the Firearms Licensing Board said she held the weapon illegally.
She drove to Runda police station in Nairobi and handed over the CZ75 Compact and asked authorities there to forward it to the board.
She told police she wanted to renew her expired firearms license but when she visited the board offices in Industrial Area she found it closed over Covid-19 restrictions.
She then travelled out of the country and could not renew the license as required. It expired on April 17, 2020.
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