Businesswoman ‘Mathe wa Ngara’, linked to a drugs haul recovered in Ngara, Nairobi has been arrested.
Kigunzu was arrested on Monday evening in Nairobi despite moving to court to seek anticipatory bail to stop her arrest.Mathe Wa Ngara, an alleged popular bhang seller in Ngara, Kamukunji Constituency, has been arrested in Nairobi Central Business District (CBD).
She is currently at the DCI headquarters in Kiambu where she is being grilled. Kizungu had gone into hiding after her counterpart, Teresia Wanjiru, was arrested on Tuesday, August 15.
Kigunzu who described herself in court papers as a law-abiding citizen said she never committed any crime in Kenya and that she has never been summoned by police officers or charged with any crime.
Three other people arrested in connection to the drugs recovered last week including her two children will know their fate on Tuesday when the anti-narcotics court delivers a ruling on whether police will be allowed to detain them for five more days.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI), Wanjiru was arrested alongside three minors after Anti-Narcotics Unit and the Trans National Organised Crime Unit raided her place in the slums of Karuia within Ngara.
A police source intimated to The Standard that Wanjiru allegedly works for Mathe, who is said to be the main bhang distributor with associates from Isebania, Busia, and Moyale where the products come from.
