32-year-old arrested as 300 kg of bhang is found in Keumbu house
Detectives acting on a public tip-off raided a house at Keumbu Trading Centre in Kisii County and arrested 32-year-old Elijah Amisi Mogire, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations said. They found seven sacks holding about 300 kg of suspected cannabis, known locally as bhang, and said he remained in custody pending arraignment.
🇰🇪 Keumbu Trading Centre, Kisii County · Kenya
- Arrested
- 1
- Cannabis
- 300 kg
Detectives raided a house at Keumbu Trading Centre in Kisii County after a
tip-off from a member of the public and arrested 32-year-old Elijah Amisi Mogire
at the scene, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said.[1] The
search of the house found seven sacks holding about 300 kilogrammes of suspected
cannabis, known locally as bhang.[2] The raid was one of coordinated
anti-narcotics operations in Kisumu, Kisii and Nairobi counties, police said.[3]
The DCI said the operations were part of a nationwide fight against narcotics
and psychotropic substances, involving NANIB, the Crime Research and
Intelligence Bureau (CRIB), the Regional Drug Unit (RDU) and the K-9 Unit.[1]
Most of the cannabis seized across the three operations was recovered in Kisii
and Kisumu.[4] Mogire remained in custody pending arraignment, and the DCI
said the recovered exhibits had been secured and the scenes documented.[1] The
DCI urged members of the public to continue sharing information anonymously to
support the fight against drug trafficking.[1]
Sources
- CRACKDOWN ON NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING. Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Kenya, 31 October 2026.
- Five arrested as police seize over 582kg of bhang seized in three counties. KBC Digital, 1 November 2026.
- Police seize 582kg of cannabis in nationwide crackdown. Capital FM, 1 November 2026.
- Detectives seize 582kg of bhang valued at Sh8.65 million, arrest five in three counties. The Eastleigh Voice, 31 October 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- No source gives the date of the Keumbu raid itself; 31 October 2026 is the date of the DCI statement announcing it.
- No charge, court date or outcome was reported for Elijah Amisi Mogire; the DCI said the arrested suspects remained in custody pending arraignment.
- No street value was given for the Kisii consignment.
- Capital FM lists NACADA among the agencies involved, while the DCI statement names NANIB; the accounts do not explain the difference.
- The same DCI statement reports separate seizures in Kisumu and Nairobi, which have their own reports and are left out of this one.
- No photograph of the Keumbu raid was published with the accounts used here; the submitted page's only image is a 2009 file photo of a marijuana plant in California.
