Seven suspects were arrested and cocaine valued at Sh96.3 million was recovered from them in Nairobi.
Also recovered was 1.2 tons of ketamine valued at Sh25 million, police said.
Director of Directorate of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin termed the arrests and recovery a major breakthrough in the war on drug trafficking and consumption.
He said the cocaine weighed 24 kilograms and had been packaged as avocados when the cargo was intercepted along Wangari Maathai Road on June 17.
The cargo was headed for Jomo Kenyatta International to be flown out of the country as an avocado cargo.
The source of the drugs is yet to be known.
The police from the Anti Narcotics Unit had been tipped off about the issue and intercepted a four-wheel drive car with two occupants along Wangari Maathai road last week.
A search was conducted on the vehicle which led to the recovery of 69 cartons, with 23 cartons containing compressed packages of whitish powdery substances labeled ‘Boss, Head, #1, and CR7 (Christiano Ronaldo) all suspected to be narcotic drugs.
This prompted the officers to proceed to the suspects’ residence in Ngara Estate within Nairobi where a search was conducted there, which led to a recovery of 46 drums stashed with whitish powdery substances packed in clear polythene bags.
Some 55 other packages in clear polythene bags containing similar powdery substances suspected to be narcotic drugs were also recovered, police said.
A further search led to a recovery of 133 sacks each weighing 25 kilograms marked sodium bicarbonate.
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They were all taken to the DCI Forensic Laboratory in accordance with The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act 1994 for analysis where it was confirmed they were cocaine and ketamine.
Police identified those nabbed as Muhammed Salem Mohamed Hussein, a Pakistan national, Khan Mohamed Ashraf Changu (Indian), and Kenyans Wesley Silvanus Adwenya, Moses Liyai Imbwanga, Paul Kivuli Sote, Railings Innocent Ogondi and Latif Mohamed Dawood.
The suspects are expected in court on June 26, 2023, police said.
This indicates the drugs had arrived in Nairobi for repackaging before they are exported.
In 2019, the then European Union Ambassador to Kenya Simon Mordue said the Kenyan port of Mombasa accounted for 30 percent of illegal heroin smuggled into the EU market.
Most of the heroin in the country originates from Afghanistan through the Indian Ocean while cocaine originates from South America.
