CS Fred Matiang'i. [Photo/The-star.co.ke]
Acting Interior Cabinet secretary Fred Matiang’i has called for more concerted efforts by the international community in the fight against drug trafficking.
At the same time, about 30 people have been reported in the recent past over links to drug cartels operating in Kenyan universities. The CS warned that unless tamed, drug trafficking networks pose grave dangers if they capture decision making structures of government and political power.
“The emerging evil nexus between money laundering, corruption, human trafficking and drug trafficking, if not addressed now will soon round themselves to decision-making and governance structures,” he said during the opening of a five-day inter-regional conference on drug law enforcement coordinated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The seminar dubbed “inter-regional conference addressing and countering the drug problem; sharing of best practices between the Americas, Africa, and Asia is being held at Windsor Hotel, Nairobi.
This comes in the wake of the rise of human and drug trafficking along the coastline of Kenya.