A lorry was on Friday impounded by police in Bomet when it was ferrying explosives and detonators.
One suspect was arrested with the lorry's registration number identified as KBT 779Y.
The vehicle was found with 1,750 kilograms of ammonium nitrate and 50 explosives.
Confirming the incident, Bomet County Police Commander Naomi Ichami stated that, "The motor vehicle belonging to nitro chemicals has been impounded and a driver arrested."
The lorry’s driver Joseph Wangombe, 37, was arrested for interrogation.
Earlier in June, a police lorry ferrying 450 cedar posts was impounded by police in Bomet after it veered off the road and landed in a ditch on Monday morning.
Reports suggest that the lorry is attached to the Anti-Stock Theft Unit camp at Nemesis on the Bomet, Kisii, Narok county border and was ferrying the posts from Chebunyo to a neighbouring county.
Immediately after the accident, which occurred at around 6.30am, Bomet Base Commander Chief Inspector Richard Psaima and Corporal David Chumo rushed to the scene and thwarted attempts to transfer the cedar posts into another lorry.
Confirming the incident, Chepalungu sub-county police boss Nelson Masai revealed that investigations into the incident had commenced.
