If you see it, say it: Principal Secretary directs state officers to be loud in fight against rising drug abuse in Kenya
The principal secretary demanded that county governments to take greater responsibility, especially in regulating and licensing businesses, saying some illegal outlets operate under the cover of legitimate permits.
War on drugs, alcoholism goes a notch higher in central Kenya as county forms multi-agency team to combat bootleg booze
The administrator observed that drug and alcohol abuse continues to erode the economic welfare of many families, draining household incomes and fuelling crime, school dropouts and domestic conflicts.
Away from Al Shabaab attacks and contraband sugar and narcotics, Garissa is emerging as Kenya’s ‘capital’ of smuggled fuel from Somalia
Garissa has also become a corridor for hard drugs trafficking such as bhang, ingredients used in shisha, cocaine and heroin are also peddled in large quantities into Kenya from Somalia through the same corridors, which link the Kenyan town to the Somali capital Mogadishu, Kismayo Port and other towns along the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia.
Police in Mumias, western Kenya, nab seven members of Fools’ Army gang, one found puffing weed
Mumias East OCPD Dorice Chemoss said area residents who volunteered to assist police to track down and identify the gangsters, tipped off the police about the whereabouts of two members of the gang, they identified as Fadhili Mukhola and Imbuli.
