The woman was nabbed with the drugs at her home in Dudi village, Rachuonyo East Sub County on Sunday after police conducted a raided.
Police said they arrested the woman after they got a tip off from a member of the public.
“The bales of marijuana were packed in different sizes of sacks,” Homa Bay county police commander Marius Tum said.
The police boss said they interrogated the woman and she revealed names of the drug dealers
“She denied being in possession of the drugs saying they were kept in her house,” he said.
Tum said they will arraign the suspect in court. This comes only three days after some contraband alcohol valued at
Sh2million were destroyed in Mbita following the ongoing nationwide operation against illicit brews and drugs.
The operations are done by officials from the NACADA, KRA, Public health, KEBS and security officers.
On Thursday, Homa Bay commissioner Irungu Macharia said the alcohol was seized in Remba, Mfangano and Ringiti Islands.
“The team conducted the raid got 168 crates of assorted beer, 3100 sachets of alcohol, 85 rolls of bhang and several bottles of
unlicensed drinking water,” Macharia said.
He expressed concerns over the increased smuggling of contraband products from Uganda. “The proximity of the Islands to Uganda makes it easy for dealers to cross into Homa Bay with smuggled goods. We’ve laid traps to ensure they are arrested,” he added.
The NACADA official Shelmith Ndung’u said the raid is still ongoing and they are charging suspects in court. Ndung’u said trade in illicit brews is rampant in a number of beaches in Lake Victoria.
“The beaches are where boats from Uganda docks. We’ve intensified the search on the water vessels to eliminate the vice of illicit alcohol,”Ndung’u said.
Courtesy Robert Omollo/The Star