Kenyans have expressed their disappointments after a kenyan woman was arrested in India with Ksh 280 Million worth of cocaine in India after going through security checks in Nairobi before travelling.
Sparking a debate on the socials, Kenyans are wondering on how the woman was processed to travel with the consignment from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA)
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) reported that the arrest was made following intelligence-driven surveillance as the woman arrived on a flight from Nairobi.
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Acting on intelligence, the Kenyan national, who came via flight no KQ 204 from Nairobi to Mumbai on December 28, was apprehended by DRI officers.
“The ingenious concealment of the drugs involved two black polythene packets cleverly placed within a hair conditioner bottle and a body wash bottle,” DRI said.
This comes after several other cases have been reported of kenyan women who are in the smuggling business and have been caught in Mumbai India.
In June, two Kenyan women were arrested in India trying to smuggle in cocaine worth Sh510 million. Delhi Customs officials said they had arrested an unnamed woman, who had arrived in India via Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and had tried to smuggle in cocaine hidden in whisky bottles.
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According to customs officials at the Delhi airport, the value of the cocaine seized was Sh380 million. The same week, another Kenyan was arrested by customs officials at the same airport with two bottles of whisky containing dissolved cocaine worth Sh130 million.
Kenyans on the socials are raising concerns over the collision of smugglers with airport staff adding to the security concerns with those mostly invokved in the trade being kenyans. This adds to woes of the ports that have faced backlash in the recent past.