High-end vehicles in Nairobi. Drug traffickers are now using high-end vehicles like Land Cruisers, Prados and Range Rovers.

📋 Breaking It Down

A road accident on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway has led to the recovery of bhang estimated to be worth more than Sh7 million, exposing how drug traffickers have turned to the use of high-end vehicles, including Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs), to transport narcotics.

To traffic police officers manning the busy Nairobi -Nakuru highway, the Monday accident near Shinners Boys Senior School was just another road crash, just like many others that have occurred before along the Northern corridor.

Six sacks of well concealed bhang were recovered from the accident scene.

📌 What You Need to Know

Preliminary investigations by the police indicated that the driver of the Mazda CX-5, which was heading to Nairobi, was attempting to overtake, when he lost control of the vehicle and collided with an oncoming Scania trailer.

The impact caused the SUV to spin and sustain extensive damage to its front section.

After the collision, the driver abandoned the wreckage and fled the scene, leaving behind cargo that would soon reveal a drug trafficking operation.

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"During scene processing, officers discovered six sacks of suspected bhang inside the Mazda CX-5. The recovered narcotics weighed 241.5 kilogrammes with an estimated street value of about Sh7.2million.The exhibits have since been secured, with detectives from the National Anti-Narcotics Investigations Bureau (NANIB) in Nakuru taking over investigations," revealed Mr Amin Mohamed, the Director of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).

A notorious drug trafficker with a number of pending cases arrested in Mombasa with sacks of bhang stuffed into a posh car after a gun drama.

📰 Source: Nation Africa