EXPLOSIVE DETONATORS SEIZED AT TAVETA BORDER
By Donald Kogai
Customs officers based at the Taveta-Holili
One-Stop Border Post (OSBP) seized 1,000
pieces of explosive detonators at Mwakitau
along the Taveta-Mombasa highway. Three
suspects were arrested in connection to the
incident.
The KRA team, backed by administration police
officers attached to the OSBP, while on routine
patrols intercepted the devices while being
transported together with Tobacco by a truck no
T143ARG at around 5.30 pm, one kilometer
away from Maktau roadblock, Taita Taveta
County.
The consignment in the vehicle had been
declared at the border point as raw tobacco
from Moshi Tanzania and was destined to
Mombasa. However, on being stopped and upon
rummaging by Customs officers, and checking
the cabin, the officers found two packages of
Supreme Plain detonators in the vehicle.
The truck was escorted back to the OSBP. Upon
being interviewed, the driver claimed the
detonators were handed over to him at Taveta
town to be delivered to the owner at Mwatate.
A joint verification by the multiagency team
from KRA, Directorate of Criminal Investigations
office and officers from the National Police
Service confirmed the parcel contained 1,000
pieces of detonators, which had been packed in
10 boxes containing 100 pieces each. The
vehicle and the detonators were detained and
deposited in the Customs warehouse.
The suspects, including a person who
presented himself at the station with a mining
permit and claiming to be the owner of the
detonators, the driver of the truck and a turn
boy who are both Tanzanian nationals, were
arrested and handed over to the Anti-Terrorism
Police Unit. They will be charged with
contravening the Explosive Act
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