DCI uproots a Kajiado cannabis farm and seizes 79 kg
On 1 August 2026 Kenya's Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Ololua police uprooted an illegal cannabis farm in Kajiado County, seizing 78.98 kg of cannabis sativa in five sacks that the DCI valued at KSh 2.37 million. Officers arrested Joseph Leimyayan, 40, at the site.
On Saturday 1 August 2026 detectives from Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)
Anti-Narcotics Unit and Ololua police, acting on intelligence, raided an illegal cannabis farm
in Kajiado County, uprooted the crop and seized78.98 kilograms of cannabis sativa packed in
five sacks.[1][2]
People Daily and TV47 Digital reported that the DCI valued the seizure at KSh 2,369,000 and
arrested a 40-year-old man identified as Joseph Leimyayan at the scene.[1][2]The DCI said
investigations would continue before court proceedings.[1][2]
Both outlets referenced a photograph the DCI published on social media, but neither embedded a
recoverable direct image address in the articles read.[1][2]
Case data
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Security officers uprooted a three-acre bhang plantation hidden among food crops in Kakongo Village, Mwingi Central, in an operation the DCI announced on 14 September 2026. The crop weighed 2,000 kg at Mwingi Police Station, where the DCI estimated its street value at Sh60 million; the cultivators fled and detectives were still looking for them.
Police and local administrators uprooted 1,327 cannabis plants intercropped with maize in Wakigunyi Village. The plantation owner escaped; the plants were booked as exhibits at Mbale Police Station while investigations continued.
Police raided a residence in the Romika area of Mwabungo village, Diani, on 1 September 2025 and found cannabis sativa being cultivated in the compound. Germans Heck Klaus Edmun and Wegener Geb Sikora, on tourist visas, and Kenyan Natasha Wangari were arrested; the scene was processed ahead of arraignment.
Anti-Narcotics Unit officers with Kenya Police raided a fortified one-acre compound in Mwabungo village, Ukunda, on 4 August 2025, uncovering a grow house with mature cannabis under controlled conditions plus lab equipment and processing chemicals. Italian Gianardi Giulio, 37, and Kenyan Moses Nanoka Egadwa were arrested as detectives probed links to a wider Coast trafficking network.
