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Author: David Bogonko Nyokang’i

  • Undercovers Nabs 50kg Bhang From Busia Bound For Nairobi

    NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 28- Three suspects were Wednesday arrested by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) after they were intercepted at the Nairobi-Nakuru highway ferrying a huge consignment of bhang under the guise of also transporting maize.

    Acting on intelligence leads DCI detectives attached at the parklands police station intercepted a Mitsubishi vehicle at Kikopey area.

    It is at this point that the occupants, a driver, and two passengers, told the detectives that their vehicle was ferrying a consignment of 100 bags of maize, (90 kg worth) from Uganda allegedly destined for Voi in Taita Taveta county.

    But upon, search, it turned out that there was more than they had declared.

    “The three suspects were shortly afterward transported to Nairobi to the DCI parklands offices,” a detective privy to the operation told Shahidi News.

    Further assessment of the consignment by the detectives confirmed that approximately 19 sacks had been carrying 50kgs worth of Cannabis Sativa, Bhang.

    The suspects are in police custody awaiting to be charged in court. The bhang was preserved as an exhibit.

    Police have in the past conducted high-level operations along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway as it is a prolific corridor for drug smugglers from within Kenya and neighboring Uganda.

  • President Kenyatta To Host A Special Summit Over Rising COVID-19 Cases

    President Uhuru Kenyatta will chair the 6th extra-ordinary session of the National and County Governments Summit on Wednesday next week, according to a statement by State House spokesperson Kanze Dena.

    It is a summit that comes at a time the country has witnessed an outright violation of the Ministry of Health protocols by Kenyans, and mostly by the politicians.

    If not shaking hands, some politicians are no longer using face masks, as if the pandemic is long gone.

    Appeals of Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe for people to observe the laid-out protocols have largely been ignored.

    “Kenyans should continue to wear facemasks correctly while in public spaces, apply correct hand hygiene at all times, and adhere with the physical and social distancing guidelines and protocols that have been put in place to safeguard our individual and collective health and safety,” the President Uhuru Kenyatta cautioned on Wednesday.

    He added that “By doing so, Kenyans will ensure that our Nation does not lose the hard-fought-for ground secured in the fight against COVID-19, and also that our Nation shall not be compelled to roll-back the easing of the restrictions that Kenyans enjoy today.”

    The summit Will review the trend of the disease and how the infection rate is likely to be in the months of November and December.

    This would spell doom to a struggling economy that has seen the unemployment rate shoot to worrying levels.

    The latest statistics by the government indicate more than 16 million Kenyans are unemployed.

    Millions of others are either surviving on a reduced salary or have been fired.

    When the government lifted some of the restrictions and extended the dusk to dawn curfew hours, there was hope that the country will bounce back until the second wave of coronavirus disease hit.

    The country lost 16 lives on Wednesday to the disease, raising the fatality to 950.

    So far, 32, 258 people have recovered from the disease out of the total caseload of 51, 851 since March.