Woman, 21, arrested as 282.55 kg of bhang found in Kisumu car
Police arrested 21-year-old Frida Night Odour at the Kisumu Boys Roundabout on 30 October 2026 after stopping a Toyota Axio carrying 282.55 kg of suspected bhang; the driver escaped. The DCI valued the load at Sh8.65 million and said she remained in custody pending arraignment.
Police arrested 21-year-old Frida Night Odour after intercepting a car carrying
suspected bhang in Kisumu.[1][2][3]Detectives stopped the Toyota Axio at the Kisumu
Boys Roundabout.[1][2][4][5][6]The stop came during an intelligence-led operation on
Friday 30 October 2026.[7][8]The driver ignored orders to stop and tried to
flee, so officers deflated one of the tyres to bring the car to a halt.[9][8]In
the commotion the driver escaped, leaving the passenger behind.[9][8][4][5]
A search of the car found the suspected cannabis sativa packed in sacks,
weighing 282.55 kg.[9][8][4][5][10]The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) valued
the cannabis at Sh8.65 million.[1][2][4][6][3][10]Investigators had not established where the
consignment was headed or the wider network behind it.[7]
In its statement, the DCI said the driver escaped during a scuffle and that the
woman was arrested while fleeing.[1][6][3]The woman and the bhang were taken into
police custody, and detectives were still tracing the driver.[9][7][8]She remained
in custody pending arraignment.[1][2][4][5]
The DCI said the operation was part of a nationwide anti-narcotics drive involving the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse Investigation Bureau (NANIB), the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB), the Rapid Deployment Unit and K-9 officers.[4]
The car was a gold Toyota Axio, registration number KCM 214Q.[5]
Officers also found 40 dozen packets of suspected uncustomed Supermatch cigarettes worth Sh40,000 in the car.[6]
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The gold Toyota Axio stopped in Kisumu, with bundles of the seized bhang spread on a tarpaulin beside it. The page gives no photo credit.Photo details
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No charge, court date or outcome for the arrested woman was reported; the DCI said suspects in the operations remained in custody pending arraignment.
The accounts differ on how the car was stopped: The Daily Post and Capital FM say officers deflated a tyre, while the DCI statement quoted by The Eastleigh Voice says an officer fired a shot at the front left tyre, and the reports do not say whether these describe the same action.
The destination of the consignment and the wider network behind it were not established.
The Daily Post's photos of the car and the seized load carry no credit line, so the photographer or agency is unknown.
The same DCI announcement covers separate seizures in Kisii and Nairobi, which are left out of this report.
People Daily attributes the account to a National Police Service statement, while earlier reporting names the DCI; the accounts do not say whether these were separate statements or one joint police statement.
The same article reports a separate operation on 29 October 2026 in which two men suspected of robbery with violence were arrested in Kisumu, an unrelated event left out here.
People Daily's page carries only an illustrative police vehicle photo, a screengrab of the police statement and an unrelated image, so it adds no photograph of the interception.
The Uzalendo News photographs are uncaptioned and carry no credit: one shows three unidentified people and the other shows rolls of bhang without saying which raid they came from, so neither is listed as a photograph of the Kisumu interception.
Radio47 gives NANIB as the National Anti-Narcotics Bureau and RDU as Regional DCI Units, while the report uses different full names for both; the sources do not settle the correct names.
Detectives from the DCI’s anti-narcotics bureau arrested two women and seized 29.28 kilograms of suspected bhang in separate raids in Bungoma and Murang’a counties. The DCI put the street value of the two seizures at about KSh 878,400.
Police arrested a suspected peddler with 800 rolls of bhang in Juja and a man with 287 rolls in Embu on 21 October, both held for arraignment. The National Police Service says the operations target drug distribution networks.
Police arrested five suspected cannabis traffickers in coordinated operations across Busia, Homa Bay, Kitui, Murang'a and Wajir counties on 16 October 2026. Officers recovered a bale, hundreds of rolls of bhang and ten bales of cannabis; all five remained in custody pending arraignment.
Police arrested a motorcyclist in the Pap Rombe area of Nyatike, Migori County on 2 August 2026 after he failed to stop for a check. A search found several rolls of suspected cannabis hidden in his clothing and luggage; he was held at Macalder Police Station with the motorcycle and drugs kept as exhibits.