Following her conviction for drug trafficking, 37-year-old Kenyan Margaret Nduta Macharia is set to be executed in Vietnam
After finding more than two kilograms of cocaine with Margaret Nduta Macharia, Vietnamese officials detained her at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City in July 2023.
Who is Margaret Nduta Macharia, Kenya woman to be executed in Vietnam for drug trafficking, bio, age, family, parents, husband and religion
Nduta’s family finds it difficult to comprehend how she got into this predicament. The family is pleading with Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi to step in, according to a family member named Alex Murumba.
Before being apprehended in Vietnam, age 37 Kenyan Margaret Nduta Macharia who is a Christian by religion and has a daughter as well had flown undetected through Bole International Airport in Ethiopia, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Kenya, and Hamad International Airport in Qatar. Macharia stated during her trial that she was paid $1,300 and had her travel expenses paid by a Kenyan guy who she only knew as John for carrying the luggage to a woman in Laos.
She insisted that she had no idea what was in the suitcase. On March 6, 2025, however, the court convicted her of narcotics trafficking and sentenced her to death. Vietnam has some of the harshest drug regulations in the world; trafficking more than 600 grams of heroin or cocaine carries the death penalty.
Margaret Nduta Macharia
The 37 Years old Kenyan 🇰🇪 was sentenced to death after being found guilty of trafficking 2 KGs of Cocaine in Vietnam 🇻🇳
Macharia Margaret Nduta will take her last meal at 7:30 today.
She will be hanged at 8:30 tomorrow in Vietnam. pic.twitter.com/g5rLFltojB
— Sumit (@SumitHansd) March 16, 2025
Purity Wangui, Macharia’s mother, who lives in Weithaga village in Murang’a County, Kenya, is upset about her daughter’s upcoming death. She is pleading with Kenyan officials, including as President William Ruto and local lawmaker Ndindi Nyoro, to step in and arrange for her daughter to be transferred back to Kenya to finish her sentence.
“Maybe she was framed, or she got into bad company. I have brought her up with strict Christian values. I am sorry on her behalf. I urge President William Ruto, through my MP Ndindi Nyoro, to take up her case, let my daughter be brought back home and be jailed here,” she told the media.
Nduta’s twin sister Rosemary Wambui alleged that Nduta’s agent gave her another suitcase to use for her trip, claiming the one she had was small as she recalled her last conversation with her sister, revealing their grandmother died after receiving news of Nduta’s execution. Nduta’s brother meanwhile hoped she would be extradited to Kenya to serve her sentence in Kenya. While Nduta has a daughter, she is unmarried and single.
Wangui is anxious to see her daughter one more time before the execution, but she lacks the funds to fly to Vietnam.
Vietnamese authorities revealed that Ms. Macharia will be executed at 8:30 p.m. today after her last meal at 7:30 p.m. local time yesterday.
She is a mother.
She is a sister to someone.
She is a daughter to someone.
She is a friend to many.
She has children who love her.
She is a proud Kenyan woman.
She is a patriotic KenyanKeep Margaret Nduta in your prayers, for she has a second chance to thank God. pic.twitter.com/BkYbQcuSMk
— PETER MAYA 🇺🇸 (@PETERMAYA027) March 15, 2025