Police in Garissa impound 1,200 litres of contraband fuel smuggled from Somalia
The county commissioner told Garissa residents to cooperate with authorities and report any illegal trade to support the fight against contraband, noting that such efforts will protect both consumers and legitimate businesses.
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.
