Bhang farmer arrested in Nairobi’s Lavington area

Police officers from Muthangari police station uprooted bhang worth Sh 1.5 Million from a 1 acre maize farm in Lavington area, Nairobi

The police officers discovered the Lavington Bhang farm while responding to a totally unrelated incident; complaints from a person who claimed he had been denied access in to the compound to recover his steel metals. In total, 300 bhang plants were uprooted

Neighbours said the caretaker of the 1 acre piece of land had been tasked to take care of it by its owner who is a Kenyan of Asian origin. He also plants food crops like maize and beans, but apparently he had found a more profitable use of the land.

Police also recovered half a kilo of bhang seeds which the care taker said were to be planted soon in the same farm. They also found a bag of NPK fertilizer suspected to be used for the Marijuana farming.

The care taker said he had planted the bhang for his personal use and did not intend to sell it to anyone. He claimed that it gives him energy to work on the farm

In a related incident, police arrested one suspect who was ferrying 362 stones of bhang in Ruiru, while his two accomplices escaped. The arrest happened when the car they were travelling in got involved in a head on collision with a truck. The vehicle was speeding as the three attempted to loose a police car that was trailing them.

The driver of the vehicle was arrested since he could not run after sustaining serious injuries in the accident.