Two women are behind bars after a multi-agency team at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) foiled an alleged attempt to smuggle 658 grams of gold out of the country.
The two suspects, Mahamed Shukri Abdulahi and Sabriye Farhiyo Hussein, were intercepted in the wee hours of September 4, 2026, as they prepared to board an Emirates flight to Dubai.
But their journey was abruptly halted when officers subjected them to a search.
One of the suspects, Mahamed Shukri Abdullahi, was found with a gold bar weighing 541 grams, cleverly concealed in her hair, wrapped with a hairband and tucked beneath her hijab.
Her accomplice, Sabriye Farhiyo Hussein, had also taken no chances. She had concealed a gold pellet weighing 116.79 grams inside her bra, bringing the total weight of the recovered suspected gold to approximately 658 grams.
They were taken into custody and are undergoing processing pending arraignment, as investigations continue.
The DCI, working jointly with multi-agency partners, remains relentless in dismantling illegal mining and mineral smuggling networks, protecting Kenya’s precious natural resources from criminal exploitation.
