The Government has declared war on drug cartels involved in planting Cannabis sativa (bhang) within Mt.
Kenya Forest.
Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kipchumba Murkomen said there has been a thriving vice of cultivation of bhang deep within the government forest typically reserved for wildlife and biodiversity conservation.
He said the issue of these clandestine narcotics farms affected Meru, Tharaka Nithi, and Embu Counties that formed part of the Upper Eastern Region. "This is a matter that has become of grave concern to the security apparatus, and we must move with speed to smash the trade," he said.
