A bus belonging to a church at the Coast was on Tuesday, October 15, impounded in Voi while transporting bhang.
The Pentecostal Evangelistic Fellowship Assemblies bus was nabbed by the police in Voi during a sting operation in the area.
The driver of the bus and two others who were on board were taken into custody as police launched investigations into the matter.
According to the police officers, the bhang had been disguised in sacks containing Omena.
In a related incident, police in Nanyuki nabbed a lorry that was transporting 136 kg of bhang valued at Ksh2.8 million from Moyale.
Laikipia East Police Commander, Kizito Maruti, confirmed the incident stating that the police officer impounded the truck along Nanyuki-Nyeri highway.
He further revealed that it took more than three hours for the officer to access the transported drugs as the lorry crew had built a secret compartment in the back of the lorry.
Maruti added that the operation was coordinated by officers from the Transnational Intelligence Unit, based at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters, who had been trailing the lorry from Moyale.
“We were tipped off about the truck from Moyale and we found that it had a false extension behind the driver’s cabin where the drugs were put in 62 wrapped polythene papers,” Maruti stated.
Three people who were on board the lorry were arrested and are expected to be arraigned in court to answer to the charges.
On October 12, police along the Bungoma-Kakamega Highway nabbed a Boda Boda rider who had strapped bhang on his body to disguise his illegal merchandise.
