Bus conductor denies having drug suspect as passenger from Tanzania to Kenya

Drugs trafficking suspects from right: Hussein Massoud Eid, Othmani Hamisi Tinje and Mwenda Hamisi Mwenda in a Mombasa Court. [Kelvin Karani/Standard]

A Kenya-Tanzania bound bus conductor testifying in a case where three are accused of trafficking heroine worth over Sh30 million has denied having one of the accused people in his bus from Tanzania to Kenya.

Tahmeed bus conductor Ali Said alias Ali Baba testified before Senior Resident Magistrate Edgar Kagoni that the other two accused people, Hussein Massoud Eid, Othmani  Hamisi Tinje boarded the bus from Lumumba in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and were destined for Mwembe Tyari, Mombasa, Kenya.