Authorities have arrested a woman implicated in the trafficking of 531 kg of bhang. The illicit consignment was seized at a home compound within Buembu village in Migori and is currently in police custody.
The consignment’s street value is reported to be Ksh 15 million.
Molinter Adhiambo Juma, 26 was nabbed at the said homestead in an operation conducted by a joint team of DCI detectives backed up by their K9 Isebania Border Post counterparts.
In the stealth operation, 9 sacks of Cannabis sativa sticks and another 8 containing the unrefined drug were found at various concealed spots with the help of a sniffer dog.
An unidentified male suspect was in time to make good his escape from the scene which is the home of Osege Odhiambo, leaving behind the woman and the prohibited hard drug worth over Sh15 million in street estimates. Search for Osege and the escapee continues.
In August 2023, DCI sleuths apprehended Nancy Indoveria Kigunzu alias ‘Mathe Wa Ngara’ in Nairobi’s CBD. S Nancy Kigunzu was accused of being a key player in the drug trafficking chain that plagued the city.