A 36-year-old woman was at the weekend arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with four kilograms of marijuana she planned to smuggle to Sharja, UAE.
The Kenyan woman was boarding an Air Arabia flight when she was stopped by Anti Narcotics police on June 23, police said.
Upon searching her brownish suitcase at the screening area 16 packages of dry plant materials were discovered concealed in aluminum foil paper.
The police said the narcotics were valued at about Sh1 million.
The woman was Monday, June 26 expected in court to face charges of trafficking narcotics.
Cases of seizure of narcotics at the airport have been on the rise.
A Thailand woman was Thursday, June 22 night arrested at the airport, and three kilograms of cocaine valued at about Sh18 million was found in her luggage.
The woman was headed for Singapore through Doha when police intercepted her.
She was identified as Netima Ngamsap and was to board a Qatar airline when police found her suitcase carrying two packages containing whitish powder that was later confirmed to be cocaine.
Police said the substance had been concealed in the false bottom of the suitcase at the time of the seizure.
She was detained ahead of further interrogation and arraignment, said the head of ANU Margret Karanja.
This is the latest seizure of narcotics in the country in a renewed campaign against trafficking and consumption.
The seizure, according to police, indicates the drugs had arrived in Nairobi for repackaging before they were exported.
It came days after seven suspects were arrested by police and cocaine valued at Sh96.3 million was recovered from them in Nairobi.
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Also recovered was one 1.2 tons of ketamine valued at Sh25 million, police said.
Police 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.
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.
Kenyan security agencies seized the second-biggest haul of cocaine weighing 100 kilos and valued at Sh598 million in 2016 in Mombasa, which was disguised as sugar.
The case was however later dismissed in court.
A Kenyan woman who had originated in Nairobi was arrested in India for smuggling in cocaine valued at about ShS14 million that was concealed in whiskey bottles.
The woman was arrested on Tuesday, June 20 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, a customs official told local media.
The suspect was intercepted after her arrival from Kenya via Addis Ababa, officials said.
Customs officials said the 2.5 kilograms of cocaine was concealed in three whiskey bottles and were recovered from a bag, belonging to a duty-free shop, carried by her.
