A driver for a Kenya-bound Tanzanian bus and his conductor have been arrested by police after being nabbed with cannabis cargo worth Sh2.5 million.
Nairobi News has learnt that a multi-agency team, drawn from the Anti-Narcotic Unit (ANU), the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), and the Police Dog Unit, brought a cross-border drug run to an abrupt halt after intercepting a Kenya-bound bus from Tanzania loaded with the cannabis cargo.
The bus, with registration number T372 DWL, operating under Kidia One Express, was flagged down at the Namanga One-Stop Border Post for what its crew thought was a routine roadside check.
Little did they know that the law was already sniffing trouble.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), highly trained sniffer dogs quickly went to work, nose-deep in business, and homed in on suspicious packages hidden in the bus’s fuel chamber.
The officers recovered four tightly wrapped bundles containing 84 packets of cannabis, weighing a total of 84 kilograms.
The driver, George Ngoba, 37, and his conductor, Trisha Lucas, 25, both Tanzanian nationals, were arrested on the spot.
The duo is currently cooling their heels in police cells and undergoing processing pending arraignment.
Meanwhile, the bus and the recovered narcotics have been detained as exhibits.
The interception highlights the government’s commitment to combating narcotics trafficking through strong enforcement, intelligence-led operations, and multi-agency collaboration to disrupt drug networks, prosecute traffickers, and protect communities from the harmful effects of illicit drugs.
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