A multi-agency security team in Busia has arrested two high school students with 23 kilograms of bhang.
In a statement of Friday, August 2, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said the two students are aged 16 and 17 years respectively. The one aged 17 is in Form 4 while the other aged 16 is in Form 3.
According to the DCI, the two students were traveling in a Guardian Angel bus from Busia to Nairobi when the police received a tip of suspected bhang being ferried by the two minors.
The multi-agency team set up a roadblock at Suo and intercepted the bus.
“The two were traveling on a Guardian Angel bus, registration number KCW 073X, destined for Nairobi from Busia when their illicit cargo was discovered. Acting on a tip-off, a vigilant multi-agency team stationed at the Suo roadblock intercepted the bus,” read the statement in part.
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The officers conducted a search and discovered five bales of bhang, weighing a total of 23 kilograms, cleverly concealed in the students’ bags. The bhang is estimated to have a street value of Ksh690,000.
The two high school students were escorted to Busia police station, where they are being processed for court.
This comes a day after Anti-Narcotics Unit officers at JKIA arrested a Sierra Leone national while trafficking 1080 grams of cocaine to Mumbai India.
The suspect who was identified as Bioma Alice Gbassay was escorted to the immigration offices where the detectives recovered the cocaine hidden in two slabs of Dove soap.
