Police officers in Nairobi on Thursday intensified the ongoing crackdown against drug trafficking in the capital, arresting two suspects and recovering narcotics believed to be cocaine at Harambee estate in Buruburu.
The officers, drawn from the Anti-Narcotics Unit of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), conducted a 6am raid at a house in the said estate where they confiscated 18 pellets of cocaine.
They also found wads of cash in both Kenya shillings and foreign currency, which they claim to be proceeds of drug trafficking.
The money was made up of; USD 12,601 (Sh1,817,064), Euros 15 (Sh2,359), Tsh 24,000 (Sh1,382), 10,000 Angolan Kwanza (Sh1,740), and Sh509,495 – totalling to about Sh2,332,040.
“The search was extended to an adjacent house believed to be a stash house within the same area where 3 test tubes, a digital weighing machine and ID card belonging to Curtis Muli Mutuku was recovered. The approximate weight of the suspected drugs recovered is 0.244 grams,” the DCI said in a statement.
The two suspects who were arrested during the raid, Muli and Teresa Achieng, are presently being held at the Muthaiga Police Station awaiting arraignment.
The raid comes just two days after a similar operation in Ngara where a woman believed to be one of the city’s biggest marijuana suppliers was nabbed.
The sleuths recovered Sh13.4 million in cash and 26 gunny bags containing marijuana during the operation.
