The National Authority for the Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) has called for an amendment to the law to allow offenders nabbed with drugs jailed for a longer period.
The authority chairman John Mututho said drug dealers needed a stiffer penalty as one way of dealing with the menace in the country.
Mututho said NACADA would consult parliament on the need to change the law, so as those nabbed with drugs can get longer sentences in jail.
“We need to alter the criminal justice system in order to have those found to be trafficking drugs including selling of lethal alcoholic products rot in jail,” said Mututho.
The former Naivasha MP said other countries had managed to control trafficking of the said drugs due to harsh penalties suspects get.
Mututho was addressing the press in Naivasha, where he updated Kenyans on the recent visit to Israel by senior NACADA officials.
He said that the Middle East country had a well established justice system, adding that if replicated in Kenya, the issue of drugs would be a thing of the past.
“In Israel, the least number of years a drug peddler can serve is 25 years, and this has enabled the country eliminate drug trafficking in totality,” added the former legislator.
He said that they would be looking to establish some mechanisms used in Israel like technology to be able to screen all suspects at every points of entry in Kenya.
Mututho reiterated the need to have sniffer dogs that would specifically deal in the issue of drugs stationed in every county.
To this end, the chairman said they were making plans to have two sniffer dogs in each county and would be availed before the end of the year.
He noted that the dogs would be procured from Israel and trained by highly specialized people, warning that those dealing with drugs there days were numbered.
“These sniffer dogs are a replica of the ones we saw Israeli army use when they arrived on a search and rescue mission during the 1998 cooperative bank house bombing in Nairobi”.
He said that the authority will have to send some of its officers to the Israel to get the requisite training on how to handle the dogs once they arrive in the country.