Mombasa a favourite transit route for drug traffickers, say experts

Containers being offloaded at the Mombasa port. [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD].

Kenya has increasingly become the preferred route of illegal traders and international drug traffickers even as the government steps up the fight against the narcotics trade. Last week, cocaine worth Sh600 million was seized at Mombasa port by police.

Various UN reports have indicated that at least two major international narcotics trade routes tend to converge on Mombasa.