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Four Kenyan women have been behind bars in Singapore after they were arrested at a Singapore airport smuggling cocaine. The four women were arrested on July 29, 2025 with 27 kilograms of cocaine and 10 grams of cannabis. They included Joyce Njeri whose family in Nakuru has come out to speak on their daughter’s misfortune.
The four women were arrested at the Changi Airport in Singapore, together with a fifth woman who was identified as hailing from Hong Kong. According to the authorities, the women had stuffed toys with the cocaine.
At the time of their arrested, they were at the transit zone of the airport’s terminal 4 where they were attempting to exchange the suitcases containing the drugs.
Once arrested, the women were subjected to a search, following which they were fond to have been transporting the cocaine that was in form of pellets. The total number of the pellets was 1,300. Individually, Njeri is accused of importing between 275 and 380 pellets containing 5.9 to 7.9 kilograms of cocaine.
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The four women join a growing list of Kenyan women who have been lured into the world of drug trafficking, and who are being arrested at various international airports while trying to smuggle drugs, primarily cocaine and heroine.
Incidentally, in the same month of July that these four women were arrested, another Kenyan woman was arrested at an airport in India with cocaine pellets in her stomach. The Kenyan woman who was identified as Florence Indangasi was arrested at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) in Mumbai after arriving on a flight from Nairobi, Kenya.
According to the DRI officials, 43-year-old Indangasi admitted that even though nothing had been found in her bags and clothes, she had ingested cocaine pellets. The officials asked for a court approval from the Esplanade court and she was admitted at the JJ Hospital in Mumbai for examination.
A total of six pellets containing cocaine were then recovered from her stomach. Laboratory tests and measurements showed that she had carried pellets containing 665.5 grams of cocaine.
