On March 12, 2019, in the evening, law enforcement officials went to a pharmacy in Mtwapa with a search warrant and took more than 10 boxes of drugs and equipment worth a total of Ksh2 million.
During an exercise that was carried out in collaboration with police from the Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Kenya (PPB), they were successful in recovering medications with the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority mark (KEMSA).
According to several reports, the chemist was owned by a guy who gained widespread attention in 2016 for his participation in a demonstration against the alcohol-blow campaign and subsequent detention by authorities from the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA).
Dennis Otieno, the head of the Criminal Investigations and Enforcement Unit at the PPB, said in a report that was released by the board on Monday, March 13, that they had had information about illicit activities taking place at the pharmacist.
He went on to say that the shop's rear room served as a storage unit where the products, particularly medicines sold by the government, were discovered.
Otieno said that the PPB had been watching the person who did it for a long time and gathering information about them before the search on Sunday.
"For the last week, we have been doing our regular checks in Mombasa, and on Sunday, we were in the Mtwapa region. The individual is quite well known, and we have been doing research on him," he said.
Otieno said that the defendant was able to evade capture during the search warrant only minutes before the police showed up at the location. He also said that he had disposed of a supply of medicines early on Sunday morning, which was many hours before the procedure.
According to eyewitness accounts, the proprietor of the pharmacy is a respectable citizen who is responsible for storing the medications.
"If we had imprisoned him earlier on, we would have also discovered Augmentin-branded Kemsa, which we were informed he had already sold by the time we arrived," Otieno continued. "If we had detained him earlier on, we would have also found Augmentin labelled Kemsa."
In December 2016, when the person talked about how he didn't like what the alcohol industry was doing, he became a topic of conversation in the news.
After the video's release, users on social media platforms began using the term "When you catch me like a rat on the motorway," which quickly rose to prominence due to the amusing quality of its content.
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