On 13th July 2019, Joyce Akinyi made in to trending news when she was arrested with 2kg herion valud at 3 million.
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She was arrested in Nairobi West together with her Congolese friend.
The two were taken to Muthaiga Police Station, where they are awaiting to be arraigned in court on Monday of 15th July 2019.
Here are some key facts about Joyce Akinyi
- This is not the first time she has been accused of drug trafficking, in 2015 she was arrested in a group of four for drug peddling, she was released without charges
- There was also drama in 2013, when Akinyi and former Budalangi MP Raphael Wanjala were arrested by police in Isinya along Nairobi-Namanga highway over claims of drug trafficking.
- Akinyi, who also calls herself a businesswoman, was arrested in Indian with Sh7.59 million . The amount she could not account for together with Wanjala
- She became a piece of cake for bloggers when she broke up with her husband from Nigeria
- The businessman Anthony Chinedu and Akinyi were grisly engaged in a public fight that shocked all and sundry
- In 2013, Chinedu was deported back to Nigeria over several accounts of drug trafficking
- Akinyi and Chinedu, a flamboyant millionaire largely fought over marital property
- Police detectives, in March 2017, told the courts that Akinyi camouflaged as a salon worker
- Chinedu, her former husband, once held a Kenyan flight crew in Nigerian as his ‘hostages’ until the government had to negotiate over his properties in Kenya
- It is believed that Chinedu was a huge drug peddler with massive networks and links within the Kenyan government, that forced President Uhuru Kenyatta to use his ‘veto power’ and force him out of the country through a chattered plane
- Chinedu also had a very big influence in the Nigeria government systems, that he used to intimidate Kenyans who were in his deportation crew
Photos of Chinedu and Akinyi
