Namanga Police Seize Sh2.5 Million Worth of Bhang, Two Arrested

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.”