A Kenyan man was on Friday arrested with Ksh15 Million worth of heroin concealed in pawpaw fruits.
The suspected drug trafficker who was identified as Joseph Njau Ngendo was apprehended in Westlands with his contraband package.
Authorities who spoke to journalists disclosed that the man had just arrived from Uganda when they detained him.
"He has a pattern of leaving Kenya through Busia border and comes back to Kenya through Malaba border. He does this to evade detection. In early February 2019 Njau made two other trips to Uganda where he is suspected to have hammered a deal with his Nigerian drug associates," a police report revealed.
Njau will be arraigned before JKIA law courts on Monday 2019 where he is expected to be charged with possession and trafficking of narcotic drugs.
The arrest comes days after DCI officers arrested an Australian man, Benjamin Gsull after raiding his house in Nairobi.
Working on a tip-off, the detectives found bhang and ammunition after a search in his house.
Globally, there has been an emerging trend of peddlers using tropical fruits to transport drugs unnoticed.
Earlier in January, authorities busted 745Kgs of cocaine hidden inside pineapple skins in Spain.
According to Reuters, the cocaine was packed in a cylindrical manner, covered in yellow wax to look like fruit and then hidden inside previously emptied out pineapple skins.
The drugs travelled from Panama to the port of Lisbon by sea.
In 2017, officials discovered 2.5 tons of cocaine hidden inside a shipment of 2,285 pineapples in Madrid.
Here is the video of the bust in Spain courtesy of Inside Edition:
