• They were arrested on the same day- August 28- when the court canceled the bail terms, police said.
• During the arrest, a search was conducted at Rose Musanda's residence and total of 796.66 grams of heroin were recovered from her house in Kinoo.
A woman and her two daughters have been rearrested by police after a narcotics court canceled their bail terms.
The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport narcotics court nullified the bail for Rose Monyani Musanda and her daughters Ann Akeyo Musanda and Mercy Uyweli Musanda over a drugs case they are facing.
They were arrested on the same day- August 28- when the court canceled the bail terms, police said.
They were arrested at their home in Kinoo, Kiambu county and are currently being held at Langata Women's prison pending their judgment on September 7, 2023.
During the arrest, a search was conducted at Musanda's residence and total of 796.66 grams of heroin were recovered from her house in Kinoo.
Also found were cannabis sativa (bhang).
In 2021, the trio were arrested with narcotics alongside a Nigerian national Moses Chidi Ubah who is currently being held at the Industrial Area prison.
The court denied the foreigner bond pending conclusion of the case but released the ladies on bond.
In 2020, the state through a civil suit by the Asset Recovery Agency had successfully applied for asset forfeiture against the three ladies that saw them lose cash and buses through a ruling by Lady Justice Mumbi Ngugi who at the time was serving as judge at Milimani Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Court.
Musanda lost six vehicles, among them five minibuses after the High Court ruled that they were proceeds of crime.
She also lost a total of Sh1.78 million which were held in two banks.
Although two vehicles had been registered in the names of two different people, a man and a woman, Justice Ngugi ruled all the vehicles belonged to Rose and the two were her proxies to conceal her illegal business.
She dismissed the sale agreements and purported transfers saying it was an attempt to conceal their ownership.
“Taking all the facts placed before me in this matter, I'm satisfied that the applicant (Assets Recovery Agency) has established on a balance of probabilities, that the assets and funds subject of the application do not have a lawful basis,” the judge said.
Evidence presented in court showed that the three made deposits of between Sh13,000 and Sh43,000 daily with ARA arguing that the proceeds were from drug business, mixed with the legitimate daily proceeds from the matatus.
Assets Recovery Authority through Mohammed Adow said Musanda constantly changed her businesses, an indication of her effort and intentions to conceal the benefits of illegal trade.
And despite claiming to be a matatu owner and dealer in second hand clothing, she filed nil or failed to file their tax returns.
Musanda said her buses was engaged in public transport business and not money laundering or drug business as alleged. The buses, she said were registered under Latema Travellers Sacco.
She said the 33-seater matatus were acquired from loans at Sidian and Equity banks and had no connection with alleged illegal trade in narcotic drugs.
“However, despite being the owner of at least six bus coaches and a vendor of a second hand clothes, she has not placed before the court any documents that can establish the earnings from her businesses,” the Judge said.
Adow told the court that there is a thread of evidence showing that she was trading in narcotic drugs and suspicious deposits were made into the accounts and she subsequently acquired the vehicles.
But the woman said she bought her first vehicle after selling a plot in Kakamega and inheriting Sh500,000 from her late husband.
Adow, however, said her accounts statements established massive cash deposits to her accounts in tranches of below Sh1 million to evade the reporting threshold as per Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) prudential guidelines.