Police over the weekend arrested two suspected drug dealers in Kayole slums, Murang'a, in the act of packaging bhang in sweet wrappers.
Murang’a East Deputy County Commissioner (DCC), Kepha Marube told journalists that the cartel had been operating in this way for a long time as police had no suspicion of the covert scheme.
The officer added that the peddlers were even targeting school-going children in their pursuits.
"There are increased cases of bhang trafficking and abuse in the county since almost every other week suspects were being charged in court with related offences.
"After the successful crackdown on selling and abuse of second generation brews in this region, it seems many young people have opted to engage in abuse of bhang but we are not going to spare them," commissioner Marube told KNA reporters on Monday.
Police in March nabbed three suspects at a rental house in Maragua town repacking two sacks of the drug into rolls and soon after intercepted a private car ferrying three sacks of the drug.
The police added that lenient punishment meted on the arrested offenders by the courts were encouraging the illegal trade.
