Police have ramped up the campaign against narcotics trafficking in Meru and Kilifi counties, seizing cannabis sative worth approximately KSh1.19 million.
At Igembe North police stations, officers from Laare Police Station detectives received and acted on information indicating that narcotics were being transferred from Kangeta into Laare Township.
Officers mounted an ambush in Mariri to observe a motorcycle rider suspected of carrying narcotics with an additional passenger in an unregistered motorbike.
The rider turned his machine around and sped away after being signaled to halt. Before continuing their flee on foot, the suspects dropped the two sacks.
The confiscated cannabis which comprised of 36 bundles, totaling 24.695 kg. At Kilifi, police stopped another narcotics delivery consignment at the Sabaki Bridge Checkpoint while a regular bus from Lamu was being examined on Tuesday.
Two packages containing 15 kilograms of cannabis were discovered concealed beneath seat 34.
A 34-year-old passenger, Biko Ouma Omenda, was arrested and handed over to Anti-Narcotics Unit detectives in Malindi.
Investigations are ongoing as police vowed to arrest two suspects who escaped in Meru and work to dismantle wider narcotics trafficking networks.
