555.7 kg of bhang seized at Webuye; driver later jailed 20 years
Police stopped a truck at Webuye on 13 June 2022 and found 555.7 kg of bhang hidden in sacks on a run from Uganda to Mombasa. The driver, Charles Mutuku Kamuya, was convicted of trafficking and jailed for 20 years with a Ksh 45 million fine, a sentence upheld on appeal in 2024.
Police officers acting on a 5am tip-off joined colleagues from Kakamega to intercept a truck coming from Uganda at the Pan Paper area of Webuye town on 13 June 2022.[1][2]Inside the truck they found bhang packed into ten sacks resembling second-hand-clothes bales, and the driver was arrested on the spot.[1][3]The consignment had come from Tororo in Uganda and was headed for Mombasa, and police said the driver, Charles Mutuku Kamuya, began giving leads on others behind the haul.[3][2]Officers first estimated the street value at Sh15 million, while the charge sheet later put the 555,700 grams at Ksh 16,671,000.[1][3][2]
Kamuya was tried for trafficking in narcotic drugs and convicted.[2]In July 2023 a Webuye court fined him Ksh 45,000,000, in default two years in prison, and added a 20-year prison term; the High Court in Bungoma dismissed his appeal against the sentence in July 2024 and affirmed the 20-year term.[2]
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