Campus students love weed. If scientists were to analyze the components of air in Kenyan campuses, they would find that the percentage of weed smoke was even more than oxygen. When most of us were kids, our parents cultivated a number of lies in our brains about the effects of Marijuana.
But anyone who has lived in Juja town along thika road will confess to you that the area is famous and notable , not for its contribution to the economy but for purple haze. Anytime Juja will trend , most people will tell you that there must be a consignment of the devils plant that has been nabbed of drug peddlers have graduated.
However the recent trends of Juja came about after students from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) main campus in Nairobi staged a demonstration after the brutal killing of their colleague.
Tabitha Muthoni Mwangi, a First Year Student, was stabbed in the neck during a robbery leading to her death.
It was this incidence that a netizen who also appears to hail from the town exposed police dealings with drug dealers in what he best describes as Money matters.
Juja police are more concerned with collecting bribes from bhang peddlers around Cool Palace than protecting students from brutal murderers, it is “money matters” not “security matters” for them.-Kamlesh
Juja has in the past been a notorious drug zone with numerous and notorious peddlers being accused for supplying Bhang to school-going children who are also said to be the biggest promoters of the illegal drug.
In June 2018, Police netted bhang worth Sh13.5 million in what they claimed was a fight against narcotics in Kiambu County.
The 3,578 rolls of bhang were in 16 bales which had been unnoticeably covered by plain sacks inside a remotely located house in Juja.
With bhang legalised and taxed at 50%, JUJA alone will repay the loans…
And life goes back to normal.
Right?— JumaCJ (@JumaCJ1) September 27, 2018
juja bhang imegrow hell i swear…it e’en smels like hell smh
— Nyamoita_ (@mimmie_tu) May 31, 2012
The moment i saw Juja trending,blv me i thought the story wld be abt pounds of bhang falling into hands of police.
— dr. KABU (@kabu_dr) March 15, 2018
Reason why the bhang users numbers are low; they never visited juja.
— Ustadh MUTHIMA (@Muthimagithinji) September 2, 2013
the demand for bhang in Juja has surpassed the supply leading the suppliers to down their tools
— online classes solutions (@george_muhando) July 5, 2016
At Juja they are always arresting students at daytime thinking they have bhang in their pockets Only for them to disappear at night a time when students get clobbered by thieves,kidnapped and even some end up getting killed
— Nineteen85 (@Nineteen851) October 13, 2018