Award-winning investigative journalist John Allan Namu on Wednesday, July 15, revealed that he was part of a documentary by a former CIA agent seeking to expose the Heroin drug trade in Kenya.
The documentary series titled The Business of Drugs, premiered on Netflix on July 14, where former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox ventures into understanding the supply, impact and cartels behind the distribution of drugs.
In one of the episodes, she tackles the heroin drug trade in Kenya and how it has impacted the society. To get more insight the former CIA agent interviewed Allan Namu and Nyali MP Mohammed Ali alias Moha Jicho Pevu to get a better picture of the situation in the country.
Watch the trailer of the crime documentary web television mini-series below:
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Namu, who is the CEO of Africa Uncensored, an investigative and in-depth journalism production house in Nairobi, explained that the illegal drug sector was a multi-billion empire that had ties to most oversight institutions in the country.
"We have created in Kenya build a platform to have a flourishing drug trade now. Institutions have been weakened, police have been infiltrated, politicians have become players themselves," he elucidated.
On his part, the Nyali legislator drew attention to his home county Mombasa which he described as a "Small Columbia" where powerful individuals ran the trade to the detriment of young people.
"Mombasa County is a mafia state. The leaders will speak about every other issue but not touch on anything to do with drugs.
"It is killing our children but these leaders don't act on it because some of them are helping the druglords to sell and transit their drugs through the country," he remarked
The legislator further implied that people who had the power to fight the drug menace were complicit in its distribution.
A 2019 report by media agency France 24 revealed that Mombasa had become the capital of a new drug trafficking route. Heroin from Asia and cocaine from Latin America was reported to be transiting through Kenya, before heading to Europe.
The illegal market, estimated in Kenya at more than Ksh1 Billion a year, was having serious consequences for the health of Kenyans.
The war on drugs has had some successes with the infamous Akasha brothers being convicted in 2019 and Baktash Akasha, sentenced to 25 years in prison. His brother Ibrahim Akasha was sentenced to 23 years in prison in January 2020.
