Drug-trafficking KQ employees nabbed in cartel crackdown

Authorities have smashed a drug trafficking racket at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport that involves Kenya Airways staff.The multi-agency team carried out a major sting operation on the night of Friday, October 13 and in the process intercepted four kilograms of hard drugs concealed as Kenyan Coffee.Flight attendants Nelson Koech and Paul Omondi, along with taxi driver Samuel Oganda were arrested on Saturday after anti-Narcotics police intercepted five packages of coffee suspected to be concealing narcotics on KQ 870 flight.They were arraigned Monday morning before resident magistrate Muthoni Nzibe at JKIA court.Anti-narcotic police told the court they needed to hold the three longer on the basis that the weighing and sampling of the suspected substance has not yet been done to ascertain its nature.Resident magistrate Nzibe further heard that police needed time to record statements from potential witnesses, majority of whom were airline staff and were still out of the country.The court will deliver its ruing on October 17.