On the morning of July 31, 2025, members of the public tipped off a multi-agency security team to a suspicious white Toyota Probox traveling from Isiolo toward Marsabit. The vehicle, bearing an unknown registration number, was observed near the Waso Nyiro River, where armed individuals were offloading luggage into green sacks.
Responding officers—from Archers Post Police Station, the National Police Reservists (NPR), and rangers of the Samburu National Reserve—confronted the suspects at the riverbank. Upon spotting law enforcement, the suspects opened fire, triggering a brief exchange of gunfire before fleeing into nearby bushland and abandoning their cargo.
A subsequent search of the riverbank recovered two green sacks containing yellow and grey cello-tape bundles. Laboratory estimates put the total weight at approximately 62.65 kg, with an estimated street value of Ksh 1,879,500.
The seized consignment has been secured as evidence, and the National Police Service (NPS) has appealed to the public to provide any information regarding the identities or whereabouts of the fleeing suspects. Efforts to track and apprehend those involved are ongoing.
This operation forms part of intensified nationwide efforts by the NPS and collaborating agencies to combat the rise in narcotics trafficking and abuse. Recent weeks have seen similar interventions in Kilifi and Nairobi, with multiple arrests of individuals possessing or distributing illicit drugs.
