A sitting Member of County Assembly was on Thursday among those arrested in bhang operation conducted in Isiolo that saw confiscation of 57 stones of Bhang.
Police from the Transnational Organized Crimes Unit and a multi-agency team arrested the MCA and an accomplice on the outskirts of Isiolo town in an operation that flushed out bhang that was stashed in a house.
According to the police, those arrested in bhang operation are believed to have transported it from Ethiopia. The two were driving Toyota Land Cruiser when they were flagged down.
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They then proceeded to the house of Nura Abdi Diba at Kambi Garba Estate on the outskirts of Isiolo town where six gunny bags containing the 57 stones of the prohibited herb were recovered.
Police say dealers use peddlers to bring the bhang into Kenya in small batches using unofficial or unpatrolled routes to smuggle in the contraband especially at night to these centres, with Moyale town accounting for more than 75 per cent.
It is from these centres that the bhang is transported to Nairobi using two different routes -the direct Moyale-Nairobi highway via Marsabit town and Isiolo and the unofficial route, a cutline that runs from Funannyata in Sololo to Yamicha plains of Merti sub-county in Isiolo.
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According to police, most of the bhang available in the region is being smuggled from Ethiopia and crooks are finding more ways to evade the police by using unofficial marked routes. This is however coming to an end as police are continously increasing their surveillance.
The exhibits from the recovery were taken to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation headquarters for further processing as the suspects underwent investigative interviewing.
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