Senior police officers display bhang seized from a Nairobi-bound passenger service bus in Namanga, Kajiado county on January 20 /GEORGE OWITI
Two people have been arrested and bhang worth Sh2.5
million seized by police officers in Namanga, Kajiado county.
Police said the consignment was netted after officers at the
border point intercepted a public service vehicle bus headed to Nairobi from
Tanzania on Tuesday.
The incident occurred at around 8.40 am and was reported at the
Namanga police station in Oloililai subcounty.
“Kindly be informed that today at around 0840 hours at
Namanga OSBP, officers who were on duty within Namanga One Stop Border Post
intercepted one PSV bus which was being driven by George Ngoba and Trisha Lucas,”
a police report seen by the Star says.
Police said two Abuja bags containing bhang rolled with zero
tapes were inside the vehicle’s boots, which also hold as fuel tanks.
“On scrutiny, 84 packets of bhang, each estimated at a
street value of Sh30,000 per packet, totaling an estimated value of Sh2.5
million were recovered,” police said.
Kajiado county police commander Alex Shikondi said the bus’s
driver and conductor were arrested and held at the Namanga OSBP. The bus has
been impounded at the same station.
Shikondi said the officers were in their routine checks when
they seized the bhang.
“Today at about 8.30 am, our officers while at the Boda
Point doing their normal such, intercepted a bus from Tanzania headed to
Nairobi. When they continued with their search in collaboration with NPS
officers and K-9, they found suspicious luggage,” he said.
“When they looked at it, they found a luggage suspected to be
bhang weighing 84kg of Sh2.5 million street value. The two suspects were
arrested and bus impounded. We have launched investigations into the incident.”