50 kg of hashish and bhang seized in maize-seed cartons at Nairobi airport
Anti-narcotics detectives at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport seized more than 50 kilograms of hashish and bhang on 24 May 2010 from 53 cartons shipped from South Africa and labelled as maize seeds; no one had come to claim the cargo.
🇰🇪 Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi · Kenya
More than 50 kilograms of hashish and bhang were seized at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport on Monday 24 May 2010, stuffed into 53 cartons that had arrived
from South Africa labelled as maize seeds.[1]Anti-narcotics detectives at the
airport were still waiting on Wednesday for the cargo’s owner to come forward, with one
officer saying the intended recipient appeared to have “sensed danger”.[1]
Airport police commandant Philip Tuimur said detectives were pursuing leads they
expected would reach the traffickers, and that police were working with their South
African counterparts while a team tried to trace the shipment’s origin.[1]Detectives said the recovery was the year’s first hashish seizure at the airport, where
previous cases had mostly involved cocaine and heroin.[1]
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