Over 1kg of methamphetamine drug concealed inside bicycle saddles was on Tuesday, September 3 impounded at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
The consignment was bound for Jakarta, Indonesia before it was flagged.
The drug estimated at over Ksh9 million was stashed among other items declared as bicycle accessories in a consignment being shipped from Moroni, Comoros.
Detectives deployed at the airport to tackle immigration crime and suspicious cargo had converged at the DHL shed for a verification exercise, where brown packages with a white crystalline substance were found concealed in eleven saddles.
Upon testing, the same tested positive for methamphetamine.
“Interpol operations have since been launched to identify the faces behind the illicit trade for arrest and prosecution,” DCI statement read in part.
“The war against abuse and trafficking of narcotics and psychotropic substances has heightened in the country, and the DCI warns that the Kenyan soil will remain a hostile ground for perpetrators, irrespective of their status in the country,” it added.
