Police in Moyale seized 500 kilograms of bhang and arrested one suspect in a stealth operation to curtail the trafficking of narcotics in the region.
The operation was launched after police received intelligence information that a lorry had been spotted at a thicket at Kate in Moyale while loaded with a suspicious consignment.
The area is popular with such narcotics originating from neighboring Ethiopia.
Swinging into action, the law enforcers rushed to the location where a trailer loaded with 99 bales of the illicit drug estimated at a street value of Sh10 million was intercepted and the cargo seized, police said.
The operation also saw the trailer driver – arrested, but not without a confrontation as two suspected accomplices emerged riding on a motorcycle while firing frenziedly at the officers.
In self-defense, the officers retaliated forcing the assailants to flee.
In the melee, the suspect sustained a gunshot wound in his abdomen and was rushed to Moyale Hospital for treatment.
As he recuperates ahead of his arraignment for contravening anti-narcotic laws, the recoveries have been processed and secured as exhibits.
