Detectives on Tuesday afternoon confiscated heroin and methamphetamine worth millions of shillings, which was destined for New Zealand and China.
The contraband narcotics were found at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) concealed in a carton containing makeup kits. Investigations already commenced to nab those involved, according to a statement from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
The seizure could mark renewed efforts by smugglers to use Kenya as a transit point for illegal narcotics.
Last month, a Mombasa court found two people, Ahmed Bakari and Clement Bristol, guilty of trafficking heroin intercepted in April 2015 while on transit in a luxury yatch. They were jailed for 10 years.
Five crew members were arrested with the drugs in the vessel that was travelling from Seychelles to Tanzania via Kenya.
Police said the suspects, four Kenyans and a Seychellois, were part of an international drug-trafficking syndicate.
The government later blew up the consignment using explosives on August 14, 2015. It was destroyed inside the Indian Ocean.
In April, Anti-narcotics police arrrested a man after he was found in possession of 25 kilogrammes of heroin with a street value of Ksh 25 million at JKIA.
Recently, the Akasha brothers – Baktash Akasha and Ibrahim Akasha – pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in New York. The two were arrested in Kenya and extradited to the US to face the charges.
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Meanwhile, the DCI working jointly with officials on Tuesday arrested two suspects for being in possession of elephant tusks (weighing 13 kilogrammes) worth millions of shillings concealed in a manila sack. The two, Samuel Wahome and Hillary Kiplangat, who were arrested in Nakuru town, were set to be arraigned in court on Wednesday.
