The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has issued a clarification following reports that a Mexican cartel had been running a methamphetamine laboratory in Namanga.
This statement comes just a day after a report by the US Department of State revealed that a meth lab was being run in Kenya until September 2024.
According to the DCI, several individuals including Kenyans and Nigerians had tried to set up the lab at the border town but had been cornered by the DCI Anti-Narcotics Unit before they would commence operations. "Based on these facts (and others which are sub judice), we clarify that the drug cartel did not succeed in operationalizing their illegal activities in the country and that no member or members of the criminal ring have been deported from the country for trial elsewhere," the statement concluded after unravelling the details.
Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations manning the agency's main entrance in Nairobi.
