Hashish disguised as vegetables seized at Nairobi airport, bound for UK
Police at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport seized hashish packed in 88 slabs in 20 cartons, disguised as a vegetable shipment bound for London. The truck driver who delivered the cargo was arrested while two loaders escaped, and detectives sent the intended recipient's details to British police.
🇰🇪 Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi · Kenya
Police at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport seizedhashish packed
in 88 slabs in 20 cartons that had been disguised as vegetables for export,
and detectives said the consignment was destined for the United Kingdom.[1]Airport CID chief Joseph Ngisa said officers suspected something was not right
with the cartons and seized them early on Tuesday.[1]
The truck driver who had just delivered the cargo at the airport was arrested,
while two other men believed to be loaders who had accompanied him escaped,
police said.[1]JKIA police chief Philip Tuimur said officials from the
Government Chemist and from weights and measures were invited to assist the
investigation as detectives prepared to arraign the suspect in court, and he
said the street value of the drugs had not been established.[1]A detective
involved in the investigation said police had the details of the person due to
receive the cargo in London and were relying on counterparts there to trace
him.[1]Police said they were increasingly concerned at the high cases of
drug trafficking at the airport, a major regional hub.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No weight or street value for the 88 slabs of hashish was published.
The whole account rests on a single Capital FM report with no second source found.
The two loaders who escaped were never identified in the sources opened.
Whether the arrested driver was arraigned or charged, and the outcome of the referral to British detectives, was not reported.
The same article reports a separate seizure of 182 pellets of swallowed cocaine from two Nigerian men at the same airport two days earlier, a different event left out here.
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