A vessel was destroyed in the deep seas in August 2014 under the watch of President Uhuru Kenyatta as an indication of the government’s tough stand against smuggling of illegal drugs .
However, a former police officer told a court that nobody claimed the vessel said to have carried heroin with a market value of Sh1.3 billion.
A concerned politician now wants the police to reveal who owned the vessel that docked in the port of Mombasa.
The Governor of Nandi, Stephen Sang’ has now written to and international and national security agencies asking for details of ownership of the 2014 drug consignment destroyed at the port of Mombasa.
The information requested through his advocate Dunstan Omari is intended to help him file a response to a defamation suit by Mombasa County Governor Ali Hassan Joho.
“On or about 29th August 2014, the State under the supervision of the President, various Cabinet Secretaries, the Inspector General of Police blew up a luxury hatch referred to as Amin Darya or MV Alnoor that had been laden with 370.8 kilograms of heroin valued at Ksh.1.3 billion, this was a bold move to declare war against drugs trafficking,” read the letter.
The letter is addressed to interior Cabinet Secretarie Dr Fred Matiang’i Raychelle Omamo (Defense), and I.G Joseph Boinnet and questions why the identities of the owners of the consignment in the ship were yet to be revealed.
The letter was also copied to Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti, International Central Bureau (Interpol), Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), Office of the President of the Republic of Kenya as well as the Registrar of the Kenyan Judiciary.
The move comes after the Nandi governor Sang, among a section of other Jubilee leaders, accused Governor Joho of being involved in drug trafficking.
Joho, in defence, filed the defamation suit against the leaders – namely Governor Sang, MPs Oscar Sudi (Kapseret) and Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu) – on February 5, 2019.