It's all lies. The guys with money have already been released.
Hello?
Hello.
Yeah, I'm at Gypsies. Where are you?
Yeah, I'm in town now.
Sorry?
I'm in town.
G, I sent you a message. You saw my message?
Yeah, I saw your message. I am coming around soon.
I have to got to the account. I have to go to my ATM.
Yeah? Right?
And then, get some more money.
There's no drugs, there's no fun ...
Welcome to Nairobi, Kenya -- the new hotbed for illegal drug dealers. As a result of a collapsed and
corrupt power-sharing government, dealers now operate freely, mingling with tourists, the wealthy,
and, in some cases, the politicians themselves.
At the moment, we are seated in the midst of a drug deal. This is 1 gram of cocaine, that is sold
for the equivalent of 50 euros.
Here we look into the life of a dealer who has been in the trade for 19 years.
We examine the clients and investigate how the drugs are getting into the East African community.
What do the drug dealers themselves think about what they are doing, and how do they operate in a society
where hard drugs are illegal?
Those drugs that are available in Kenya as of now are cocaine, heroin and ecstasy.
I'm an Invisible Man.
I call myself an Invisible Man because of the kind of business I'm doing. You know, you have to be like
an Invisible Man.
I could not get a job, so one of my friends introduced me to this. And if I can be able to do this, then I can
cope out my life. So that is what forced me into it.
Yeah, I do have some employees.
So now I am going to Karen ...
Maybe to see some of our clients there, I don't know.
We give them something that we know that will not affect us.
Yeah, something little.
So when the person can prove himself, then the deal will continue.
The trafficking routes are far and widespread. Drugs by the tons are seized monthly at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta
Airport, yet the dealers continue their operations without halting.
We are concerned and this is why our officers are working
round the clock to see that these things are intercepted.
Well packed, you know, folded properly, such that they provide enough space for enough, enough, enough.
I can also assure you that these officers you see here, they are on the ground
to see that our airports are not used as
drug transit
areas.
She was found to have hidden in her bag 4.2 kilograms
of cocaine, with a street value of 21 million shillings [U.S.$276,000].
Somehow what has been seized always goes missing and to the Invisible Man.
We have to pick it up from here.
When they take it from there ... trafficking, down all along from there,
down to Kenya, we pick it up from here. And we distribute it.
Meanwhile, four people were charged today with trafficking illegal drugs. Appearing before Senior Magistrate
Murage Ndungu, they pleaded not guilty and were released on a 1 million shilling [U.S.$13,100] cash bail each.
The people that are taking drugs, they are working-class people.
It has to come all along from South America, and shipping or trafficking to any part of African country,
like Guinea, Ghana, Nairobi ... by air and through Uganda.
Most of my clients are located in Nairobi,
with some located in Karen ... Gigiri side.
My worst experience, when I was selling drugs, was
when some friends invited me to a party in Mombasa.
So I went along with them. So as we get to the place,
I was so nervous ... you know, it looked strange.
Then I call one of the friends that invited me,
[and told them] that I don't feel at ease here, so I need to go home.
So as I am just leaving the party, getting to the taxi park,
looking for a taxi. I called the first taxi guy -- he refused.
I called the second one, same thing.
Third one -- same. So now I decided to move,
to walk out from the main compound to the main road.
So as I just get to the main road, then I saw something like a private police car,
drive into the same compound I was coming from.
In a few seconds, the guy drove out again.
So when I discovered, it seems like something crazy wanted to happen.
I just flushed out what I had on me,
and I just went to bus station.
I pick a ticket, left Mombasa same night back to Nairobi.
Bribery is often the method used to deal with the authorities, and allows the Invisible Man to operate freely.
If I'm caught by the police, I need to talk to the police.
It's either by giving him the stock, then settle some amount of money at the same time.
Similar to the Invisible Man, others looking for a better life have tapped into the flourishing, Kenyan drug scene.
The drug problem in Kenya and the rest of Eastern Africa is massive.
With rampant corruption, the problem appears endless.
The Invisible Man will continue to operate unscathed with a government which then,
on one hand, says that they want to combat the problem, but then offers no solution as a result of their corruption.