Mary Njeri, a 35-year-old Kenyan woman, has been detained in Ghana after allegedly attempting to smuggle 11.04 kilograms of suspected cocaine worth Sh41 million ($309,120) through Kotoka International Airport in Accra.
The drugs were reportedly found hidden in packets of Cremora food during a routine check after Njeri arrived on a South African Airways flight from Nairobi to Accra via Johannesburg.
Ghana’s Narcotics Control Commission has sent the exhibits for analysis and report to the Ghana Standards Authority, and Njeri is being held in prison pending further investigation and prosecution.
This follows the recent arrest of another Kenyan woman in Hong Kong for smuggling 1kg of a narcotic substance, believed to be cocaine, into the Chinese city.
