Naivasha - A Kenyan death row inmate has had an operation to remove a cellphone from his large intestine, a prison warder said on Wednesday.
Medical teams at a hospital in Naivasha, north-west of the capital Nairobi, on Tuesday night extracted a cellphone wrapped in a plastic bag from the gut of the prisoner after the device showed up on an X-ray.
“There was a mobile phone in the body and it's worrying the lengths this inmates can go to smuggle things into prison,” prison chief Patrick Mwenda told reporters.
Mwenda did not specify how the inmate, identified as Bernard Kosgey, had introduced the cellphone into his intestine but said doctors established it had been wedged there for a month.
Earlier, tests with a metal detector had showed that Kosgey was carrying a metallic object, but a body search conducted by warders produced nothing. - Sapa-AFP