A 36-year-old woman was arrested over the weekend at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with 4kg of marijuana she planned to smuggle to Sharja, UAE.
Police said the Kenyan woman was boarding an Air Arabia flight when she was stopped by Anti Narcotics police on June 23.
This is after 16 packages of dry plant materials were discovered concealed in aluminium foil paper in her brownish suitcase at the screening area.
Police say the narcotics were worth Sh1 million and are in high demand in Dubai.
Cases of seizure of narcotics at the airport have been on the rise due to various measures put in place. These include thorough screening.
It came after a Thailand woman was arrested last Thursday night at the airport and 3kg of cocaine worth Sh18 million were found in her luggage.
The woman was headed for Singapore through Doha when police intercepted her.
She was to board a Qatar airline when police found her suitcase carrying two packages containing whitish powder that was later confirmed to be cocaine.
Police said the substance had been concealed in the false bottom of the suitcase at the time of the seizure.
She was detained ahead of further interrogation and arraignment, said the head of ANU Margret Karanja.
This is the latest seizure of narcotics in the country in a renewed campaign against trafficking and consumption.
The seizure, according to police, indicates the drugs had arrived in Nairobi for repackaging before they were exported.
It came days after seven suspects were arrested by police and cocaine worth Sh96.3 million recovered from them in Nairobi.
Also recovered was 1.2t of ketamine valued at Sh25 million, police said.
Police said the cocaine weighed 24kg and had been packaged as avocados when the cargo was intercepted on Wangari Maathai Road on June 17.
The cargo was headed for Jomo Kenyatta International to be flown out of the country to Singapore as an avocado cargo.
In 2019, the then European Union Ambassador to Kenya Simon Mordue said the Kenyan port of Mombasa accounted for 30 per cent of illegal heroin smuggled into the EU market.
Most of the heroin in the country originates from Afghanistan through the Indian Ocean, while cocaine originates from South America.
A Kenyan woman who had originated in Nairobi was on Tuesday, June 20 arrested in India for smuggling in cocaine worth ShS14 million that was concealed in whiskey bottles.
The woman was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, a customs official told local media.
The suspect was intercepted after her arrival from Kenya via Addis Ababa, officials said.
Customs officials said the 2.5kg of cocaine was concealed in three whiskey bottles and were recovered from a bag belonging to a duty-free shop carried by her.