The planned deportation of a Nigerian drug kingpin failed on Christmas eve after he became unruly and stripped naked at the city’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Police arrested the man, who uses many names, on Christmas eve and said he was responsible for recruiting young Kenyan women into a global trafficking syndicate.
Subsequently, they applied to the Immigration department for deportation orders.
The man, who police say uses several other names, was declared a prohibited immigrant by former Immigration Minister Gideon Konchella in 2007. The deportation order is still valid.
Since the order was signed, police have been hunting him down until they seized him on Christmas eve.
“Containing an unruly prisoner is as simple as handcuffing him,” said an officer involved in shipping him to the airport, but who requested not to be named because he is not authorised to speak to the Press.
“We were taken aback when we were ordered to detain him in Nairobi rather than handcuff him and take him to the plane,” said the officer.
“If he is not deported quickly, he’ll end up fighting this deportation in the courts and who knows how long it might drag there?” asked the officer.
The man was arrested at an entertainment spot in the city’s Nairobi West and taken for interrogation at CID headquarters and different police stations.
Investigations spanning over eight years have shown that the Nigerian is the handler of most of the Kenyan women who have been arrested with drugs abroad.
The man has been arrested before but was released after intervention from a senior police officer who is alleged to be on his payroll.
The suspect is believed to have taken over the control of the drug trafficking operations in Kenya when a Cameroonian kingpin, only known as “Mr President” fled to Dubai in December 2003 after detectives raided his residence and impounded eight vehicles.
The Nigerian’s recruits are said to have included five Kenya Airways flight attendants arrested in London and Amsterdam with cocaine, a model, students in China and India and others arrested while entering the country at the JKIA.
source.nation.ke