Are Traffickers Winning?

26 April 2011

editorial

Nairobi — Kenya’s war against drug trafficking appears to have lost steam. New cases of drug traffickers passing through our airports and border points appear with worrying frequency.

At the weekend, for example, three people were arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport en route to the Seychelles with cocaine worth an estimated Sh10 million.

A series of articles in Tuesday’s edition demonstrated graphically that the campaign to rein in traffickers was faltering.

Last year, for example, 300 people were arrested for trafficking narcotics.

Not only have the barons developed sophisticated methods for ferrying their illicit merchandise, they have also sucked into their schemes the police, other law enforcers and top people in government and in politics.

The network has become aggressive, ruthless and scheming.

But there is no way a civilised society, like ours, can give in to the drug merchants. This is why the war must be stepped up.

Required in this crusade is political will and resolve. We urge the political leadership to take up the challenge and push the war to its logical conclusion.

They owe this to future generations.

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