{"id":10813,"date":"2013-10-06T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T07:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ghanaian-arrested-at-aiport-in-kenya-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2013-10-06T07:11:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T07:11:21","slug":"ghanaian-arrested-at-aiport-in-kenya-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ghanaian-arrested-at-aiport-in-kenya-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian Arrested at Aiport in Kenya Trafficking Cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Kenya Police at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport have detained a Ghanaian man found trafficking Cocaine worth Sh4m to Benin.}}<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old man was arrested on Saturday night while connecting a flight to Benin on arrival from Sao Paulo, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe displayed a peculiar character that clearly matched that of drug traffickers and that is when he was taken in for further interrogation and examination,\u201d Airport CID chief Joseph Ngisa said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was found to have swallowed 48 pellets of Cocaine which he has since emitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is still under observation before he is arraigned in court tomorrow,\u201d Ngisa said.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Kenya have lately intensified the war against drug trafficking following President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n<p>Two months ago, police deported over 30 Nigerian nationals suspected of involvement in drug trafficking in Kenya, including controversial businessman Antony Chinedu who had stayed in Kenya for several years and even acquired property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will allow them to turn our country to a drug haven. That is why I have ordered that all drug traffickers be deported to countries,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Three of those deported were however, arrested several weeks later after sneaking back.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3718 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/coccaine.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>capitalFM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Kenya Police at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport have detained a Ghanaian man found trafficking Cocaine worth Sh4m to Benin.}} The 34-year-old man was arrested on Saturday night while connecting a flight to Benin on arrival from Sao Paulo, Brazil. \u201cHe displayed a peculiar character that clearly matched that of drug traffickers and that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000048674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-10813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000048674,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10813.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10813.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10813.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10813.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10813.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10813.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000048674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10813"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=10813"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=10813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}