Police officers on Tuesday impounded a bhang haul with a street value of over Sh1 million at Mariakani area along the Mombasa Nairobi highway.
Kaloleni Deputy police boss Henry Ngeiywa said the drugs were intercepted as they were being transported to Mombasa. Speaking to The Star on phone Ngeiywa said the drugs weighing 364 kg had been packed and concealed in a vehicle.
"Our officers managed to net the drugs after the suspected drugs peddlers abandoned the vehicle just a few meters from the roadblock.The occupants escaped on foot,” said Ngeiywa.
Ngeiywa said investigations indicate that the drugs were being ferried from neighbouring Tanzania to Mombasa. According to police the vehicle was hired from Nakuru purposely to smuggled the drugs.
The owner of the vehicle has so far surrendered to the police to assist in the investigation. Ngeiywa said they are working with detectives from Nakuru in the investigation to arrest the barons behind the business.
“We are working closely with our counterparts to apprehend the key suspects behind the seizure. The owner of the vehicle has agreed to cooperate with our anti-narcotic officers," said Ngeiywa.
Senior anti-narcotics police officers have been camping in the Mombasa to unearth major trafficking cartels using the port of Mombasa as a transit port for drug smuggling.
The officers have made a successful seizure of heroine worth over Sh1 billion from a suspicious stateless ship intercepted off the Kenya coast in Lamu by Kenya navy officers last month. Last week Kenya’s anti-narcotics police intercepted suspicious containers suspected to be loaded with heroin at the port of Mombasa.