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State deploys elite units to curb runaway drug trafficking

State has deployed special anti -narcotics and anti-terror police officers to Isiolo County to help contain the menace. [Bruno Muntunga/ Standard]

Elite squads have been deployed to Isiolo to monitor activities of drug dealers behind the trafficking of popular Ethiopian bhang into the country.

The officers from the Police Anti-Narcotics Unit (ANU) and Anti-Terror Unit (ATPU) who will spearhead the crackdown on the cartels operating between the border town of Moyale and Nairobi, will be based in Isiolo town. 

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