Although Miraa is legal in Kenya, illegal transportation of the drug can land an individual to serving a jail term.
Miraa consignment(Dried Khat) weighing about 1700Kgs which was concealed and declared as personal effects&ready for export to the United States, France & Singapore was today afternoon confiscated by #DCI Detectives.Investigations already commenced to nab suspects.
#ConcealedGoods|Miraa consignment(Dried Khat) weighing about 1700Kgs which was concealed and declared as personal effects&ready for export to the United States, France & Singapore was today afternoon confiscated by #DCI Detectives.Investigations already commenced to nab suspects. pic.twitter.com/CfAXjiGTiO
— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) November 14, 2018
In a recent incident reported by the nation, A man from Latvia who was caught trafficking miraa from Nairobi to the UK and was jailed for ten months by a judge at Warwick Crown Court.
Nauris Ennitis, 27, pleaded guilty to the illegal importation of 35 kilograms of miraa with a value of Sh 2,800, 000 (£20,000) into the UK where the plant is a banned class C drug.
Prosecutor Madhu Rai told the court that in September 2017, Ennitis was stopped by a UK Border Agency officer who had spotted him pushing two large suitcases which he later said he had packed himself.