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Police seize contraband cigarettes worth Sh89 million, arrest one. Police in Kilgoris, Narok County, have seized suspected contraband cigarettes valued at Sh89 million and arrested one suspect. Narok County Police Commander Kizito Mutoro said the police became suspicious after a lorry declined to stop at a roadblock, prompting a chase by officers, who caught up with it in Kilgoris. "The Transmara West DCI officers managed to intercept the motor vehicle – an Isuzu lorry of registration number KCE 243B within Kilgoris town and upon searching the said vehicle, 510 cartons of contraband Supermatch cigarettes each with 5,000 cigarette filters all valued at Sh89,250,000 [were] recovered," said Mr Mutoro. The contraband cigarettes had been packaged and sandwiched between 81 bags of rice chaff.
