Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Monday arrested two suspects sneaking contraband valued at Ksh9 million into Kenya.
In a statement, DCI revealed that a team of three individuals had used their car to sneak 300 kilograms of marijuana into the country through the Isebania border.
The detectives, while working on a tip-off, gathered intelligence that the three were driving along the Isebania - Migori highway at breakneck speed.
The officers, as a result, mounted a roadblock along the highway but the three decided to drive past, ignoring signals to stop for checks.
"Bumping into a police roadblock that provided a safe distance to pull over for a search, the driver opted to drive past the officers nearly running over one of them," read the statement in part.
"But with their 40th day at nigh, three well-calculated rapid shots from an AK47 benumbed his accelerator foot, prematurely terminating their journey."
The detectives, as a result, arrested two of the suspects and launched a manhunt for their colleague who escaped. They also recovered the drug haul and impounded the car.
The arrest comes months after a report by the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) painted a grim picture of the use of marijuana in Kenya.
The report released in September last year indicated that the use of the drug doubled in a span of five years.
Some 518,807 individuals aged between 15 years and 65 years were reported to regularly use the drug, representing 1.9 per cent of the country's population.
The report also showed that most of the persons using the drug were male, 475,770 compared to 43,037 women.
"Nairobi region had the highest prevalence of current use of cannabis (6.3 per cent) followed by Nyanza (2.4 per cent) and Coast (1.9 per cent)," read the report in part.
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and his wife Dorcas Rigathi have been spearheading a campaign aimed at eradicating drug abuse in the country.
