- Police revealed the drugs had been sourced in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by the man on behalf of the woman for sale in Nairobi.
- The drug is popular within Nairobi’s upmarket areas nightlife.
Two drug mules were on Thursday arrested and 700 grams of cocaine valued at Sh2.8 million found on them in Nairobi’s Fedha estate.
This was during a police operation aimed at taming the rising cases of drug trafficking, possession and consumption.
The suspects are a 52-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man, police said.
Police revealed the drugs had been sourced in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by the man on behalf of the woman for sale in Nairobi.
The drug is popular within Nairobi’s upmarket areas nightlife.
According to police, the woman who is a seasoned trafficker had enrolled the man as an apprentice in her drug trafficking network.
Earlier in 2021, the same woman had dispatched three Kenyan drug couriers to Thailand but their drug mission was a failure as they were arrested and jailed there for life, police say.
Police termed her arrest a significant step in the fight against drug trafficking and consumption in the region.
This comes in the wake of sustained operations on the traffickers in the country.
Last week, police who had been investigating a cartel that has been selling heroin to students of a university in Mombasa arrested a suspect and recovered four kilos of the drug valued at Sh2 million.
The suspect is the son of a known and wanted drug trafficker in the area.
Cases of drug trafficking, possession, and consumption in parts of the country have been on the rise despite operations to tame them.
Dozens of traffickers have since been arrested and charged in the operation.
Police are yet to net main drug lords as only mules are usually arrested.
Police say traffickers now use roads as opposed to airports to carry out their business.
The most commonly trafficked narcotics from Tanzania and through Uganda is heroin. Cocaine is also trafficked from the two countries.
This comes in the backdrop of a recent National Drug Survey by the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) indicating widespread abuse of prescription medication.