three tanzanians
Three Tanzanian businessmen have been charged in Mombasa with trafficking heroin worth Sh30 million.
Hussein Massoud, Othmani Hamisi and Mwenda Hamisi pleaded not guilty before Senior Principal magistrate Janet Kassam.
The three were found with 10.22 kgs of the substance, hidden in false bottoms of the suitcases, at the Lunga Lunga border in Kwale county on Friday.
Police said they were taking the heroin to Mombasa.
Kassam will rule on their bond application on Tuesday.
The value of the drugs had initially been placed at Sh90 million but it lowered to Sh30 million.
On Saturday, Coast Regional Coordinator Benard Leparmarai said 200,000 people would have consumed and that their lives would have been adversely affected.
Leparmarai said sniffer dogs will be introduced at the Kenya-Tanzania border to tame drug trafficking.
-The Star