Four Tanzanian women found at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with contraband drugs

By CYRUS OMBATI 

Kenya: Four Tanzanians were Wednesday evening arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi while trying to fly out with drugs believed to be cocaine.

The four who include one man had arrived at the airport and wanted to fly to Hong Kong when police stopped them for a search.

Airport CID boss Joseph Ngisa said they were put under observation and three of  them had by Thursday morning emitted several pellets that they had inserted into their private parts.

“They had inserted these narcotics into their private parts. They are emitting them slowly and we expect them to be through by end of the day,” said Ngisa.

Police say they are still under observation and will be charged in court when they finish emitting the drugs. They had come to Kenya through Namanga border and were to fly out to Hong Kong.

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Such cases are on the rise and the traffickers seem to be changing tactics to avoid being detected. They usually insert the pellets into their private parts before taking their flights.

But Ngisa said they have heightened their operations to curb the business.

And a woman was Wednesday night shot dead in a confrontation with gunmen in Tasia area, Nairobi.

Nairobi police boss Benson Kibue said the woman was in the company of two other female friends when gunmen confronted them and demanded that they board their car.

This prompted an argument that left one shot dead at close range. The other women fled as the gunmen also drove off. No arrest has been made so far but investigations have been launched.

“We always advise Kenyans not to defy orders of gunmen. Whoever has drawn a gun over you is the boss and you need to heed the order,” said Kibue.

In another shooting incident, three suspected thugs were Thursday morning shot and seriously wounded in a botched robbery in Jamhuri Two estate. Police said the men drove off under the barrage of bullets and have appealed to any hospital that may receive a patient with wounds to alert them.