Police in Thailand are holding a Kenyan arrested while attempting to smuggle outlawed cocaine drug into the country.
In a statement on Wednesday, Thailand authorities stated that the suspect was arrested alongside a Nigerian national identified as Osita Joseph Ukpa.
The authorities said that Glenn Chibasellow Ooko was nabbed at the country's capital Suvarnabhumi airport with over 60 packets of the drug in his tummy.
Through the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB), the authorities said that the Nigerian had hired the 40-year-old Kenyan to help with smuggling the product into Thailand.
"He swallowed cocaine weighing 1.2 kilograms, which were in 68 packets," said the ONCB, after an x-ray test gave the suspect away, revealing the packets in his stomach.
With Thailand having for long served as a major shipment hub to other countries like Australia and Japan, the authorities branded the two part of the system.
"This is part of a drug network in Thailand," further read the statement as was quoted by Daily Nation,
Methamphetamine worth billions of shillings has also been finding its way to Laos and Myanmar through Thailand, on its way to Australia and Japan.
Just like in Thailand, the drugs are similarly banned in Kenya and their use and possession considered illegal.