Reports Leo Odera Omolo
Once again police in Migori have impounded a bhang haul with a street value of Ksh. 1.6 million near Sori Bay town in Nyatike district. The discovery of the drug comes only three days following last weeks discovery of a seven acres of bhang plantation farm on top of Kimaye Hill near Wath Ong’er in North Kadem location, Nyatike District.
In the first discovery forced the police to call up 100 officers’ reinforcement from nearby station. The officers also sought for the lorry. Lord of prison inmates from Migori. GK prison to associate them in uproading the bhang which an eye witness were planted were planted on 7 acres of land on top of Kimaye hills in central Kadem.
Rumors making the round allege that the six suspects who were taken into police custody to face the full force of the law were merely the employees of a senior politician in Migori County who is suspected to be the owner of the plantation.
The uprooted plants were packed in vehicles which took them to Nyatike District headquarters where the drugs was burnt and destroyed. Six men who looked like the workers in the farm were taken into custody and would appear in court in due course.
In the latest incident Nyatike OCPD, Richard Makwata confrimed the incident. He said the police also arrested two suspects who were transporting the bhang to a house within Sori town centre.
He said the police got a tip off from members of the public who saw the suspect move. He added that when the police visited the house they found the bhang heavily packaged in under containers and full bags ready to go into the market.
The police also impounded the three boda boda motorcycles which were used on ferrying the drugs were also impounded at the riders taken into custody.
This later incident comes only three days after police in the area destroyed seven tones of bhang plantation worth Ksh 50 million during the raid on secret bhang farm in Ngatiu sub-location of Mrori county .
More than 100 policemen were drawn from the various Police Administration and Police Ground Investigation departments.
The vast on the term which it is they alleged belonged to a pronounced politician this was only after the police tip was led by Midori Police county commission Clement Gitongo who said the police that reveled information of the existence of bhang farms along the banks of River Keja.
Consignments of bhang from Migori County have always found a way into the cities and towns.
Several motorist have been nabbed at the police road checks and road blocks far away in places like molo, Nakuru and Naivasha after finding their ways from Migori ,kisii Kericho, but only land intrusion far busy in the region . This is a clear indication the lucrative bhang trade involved some powerful politician in Migori who have been operating claimleely with help of local policemen.
The bhang trafficking business has been thriving in the region in for a long time. Most isolated hill-tops are known to be the hideout of bhang farms not only in Nyatike su-county, but also in the neighboring Mbita and Suba regions.
The drug-lords are said to be stinking in wealth and would therefore go into full length to ensure that vehicles transporting the products to the big Cities like Nairobi and Mombasa passes through the police road blocks unnoticed.
Ends