Woman's attempt to sneak suspected explosives to Naivasha prison thwarted:
Vigilant guards manning the main entrance at Naivasha Maximum
Security Prison Tuesday thwarted an attempt to sneak in suspected
explosives to the facility.
Reports indicate that at
around 3.30pm Tuesday, a smartly dressed woman went to the highly
guarded penal institution and requested to see two inmates serving life
imprisonment.
The duty officers at the gate demanded to ransack her luggage as required by prison regulations.
One of the officers noticed a bar of soap that had some knife marks and alerted his colleagues who cut the soap into pieces.
They noticed what they suspected to be gun powder used to make explosives.
CLEVERLY CONCEALED
The
powder was cleverly concealed in tiny polythene papers and carefully
tucked inside the bar soap in an obvious attempt to hide it from prison
officers.
“We suspect the woman had ulterior motives
when she attempted to sneak the suspected explosives inside the prison,”
said the officer in charge of the reform facility, Patrick Mwenda.
He said the two inmates she was visiting would be held in isolation as they were now considered a security threat.
“We cannot take chances and we are going to segregate the two in the following what has happened today,” he said.
The
woman, and the two inmates she wanted to visit, were quickly whisked
away to the Naivasha Police Station and handed over to detectives who
immediately started investigations.
Later, the woman
was taken to her house at the County Council Estate, where police
ransacked the house for several minutes in search of clues.
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