Three Nigerians among four suspects arrested in drug peddling crackdown

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) reported on Saturday evening that Igboke Okwuchukwu Stephen was apprehended at his house in Nasra Estate, Nairobi where he had concealed several pellets of a brown powdery substance.

Detectives later nabbed Ilo Ebuka Titus and Kanu Arinze at their residence in Suton, Kasarani, where suspected bhang and a package of a brown powdery substance was found upon search.

Kanu, Ebuka and Okwuchukwu have been taken to Muthaiga Police Station pending drug tests and prosecution.

In a separate operation in Ruaka, 25-year-old Njuguna Karumo was apprehended after similar drug substances were found hidden under the mats of his car during a stop-and-search operation.

Karumo is being interrogated at DCI's Mazingira Complex.

DCI says the operation is going to extend to all counties in a bid to flush out drug traffickers and peddlers who abet the abuse of drug substances in the nation.