Detectives drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have apprehended a woman after she was found in possession of cocaine worth Ksh1.6 million.

Addressing members of the public on Saturday evening, the DCI officers revealed that the 45-year-old was nabbed hiding the illicit drugs inside her body.

The bust began when the middle-aged woman, a passenger in a Marsabit-bound Toyota Probox, decided to decline a routine search by police officers manning the highway.

According to the officers, while her fellow passengers complied with the officers' checks, the woman threw a tantrum and refused to be searched by the police.  A Traffic police officer attached to Kisumu Central Police Station stops an oncoming vehicle during a crackdown along Nairobi Road on January 28, 2020.