Detectives have seized Ksh.9 million worth of methamphetamine drug at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
The drugs, weighing more than one kilogram, were concealed inside bicycle saddles.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the consignment was bound for Jakarta, Indonesia.
“The drug estimated at over Ksh.9 million was stashed among other items declared as bicycle accessories in a consignment being shipped from Moroni, Comoros,” the DCI said.
Detectives deployed at the airport to handle immigration crime and suspicious cargo flagged the consignment.
A verification exercise saw brown packages with a white crystalline substance found concealed in eleven saddles.
Upon testing, the substance tested positive for methamphetamine. “Interpol operations have since been launched to identify the faces behind the illicit trade for arrest and prosecution,” detectives added.
The latest incident comes as the war against abuse and trafficking of narcotics and psychotropic substances has heightened in the country.
Meanwhile, the DCI issued a warning saying that Kenya remains a hostile ground for perpetrators, irrespective of their status in the country.