The porous Kenya-Ethiopia border is used by drug traffickers to get their illegal consignment to Nairobi and beyond. The border town of Moyale in northern Kenya is now an entry point for large hauls of bhang widely grown in southern Ethiopia. RoutesWith the police on high alert, the smugglers had to find other ways of getting the bhang through the Kenya-Ethiopia border. In February, this year, police in Marsabit arrested three suspected drug traffickers — two police officers and a woman — at Laisamis on the Moyale-Isiolo highway. In May, last year, a lorry driver was arrested after he was found transporting 135 bales of bhang from Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News November 11, 2020 09:11 UTC