DCI nab three foreigners and Kenyan in drug trafficking crackdown
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Detectives arrests four suspects, including three Nigerian nationals, in an ongoing crackdown on drug drug trafficking crackdown in Nairobi
Detectives arrests four suspects, including three Nigerian nationals, in an ongoing crackdown on drug drug trafficking crackdown in Nairobi.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)’s Anti-Narcotics and Transnational Organised Crime Unit have arrested four suspects, including three Nigerian nationals, in an ongoing crackdown on drug dealers and peddlers in Nairobi.
In a statement on Saturday, March 16, DCI said Igboke Okwuchukwu Stephen of Nigerian origin was the first suspect to be apprehended and taken to the Muthaiga Police Station.
“The man had been found with several pellets of a brown powdery substance concealed in his house at Nasra Estate, Nairobi,” read the statement in part.
Moments later, the Anti-narcotics detectives arrested 25-year-old Njuguna Karumo after he was found hiding drugs under the mats of his Honda vehicle during a stop-and-search operation in Ruaka.
Njuguna was taken to the DCI headquarters along Kiambu Road for interrogation over the drugs.
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In a separate intelligence-led operation at Nyamakima in Nairobi CBD, the sleuths arrested two other Nigerians, Ilo Ebuka Titus, and Kanu Arinze, and escorted them to their residence in Sunton, Kasarani.
The DCI found seized suspected bhang and a package of brown powdery substance in the house.
“Kanu and Ebuka were also taken to Muthaiga Police Station pending testing of the drugs and possible prosecution for use and peddling,” DCI stated.
According to the DCI, the ongoing crackdown on drug traffickers and peddlers which extends to all counties is aimed at fighting the vice from the grassroots, with the police enforcing anti-narcotic laws.
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