Mr Iteere announced on Wednesday that he had commissioned a team of highly qualified detectives to undertake the probe.
“What I can tell from the intelligence sources, we have names of personalities, some of them are very prominent and within a week or two, I am going to produce the results,” Mr Iteere said at a media conference where he also released statistics of drug seizures and arrests in the past two years.
He said the investigation headed by one of his deputies will be expedited as ordered by President Mwai Kibaki who has also called for the restructuring of the Anti-Narcotics Unit (ANU).
“You are aware that the President did direct that we do as a matter of urgency restructure and revamp ANU. Yes I do concur, and very shortly we will be restructuring ANU, this is a unit within the CID,” he added.
He said the investigations being carried out by the police were totally independent from what the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission [KACC] is doing after it received a damning dossier from the US Ambassador Michael Ranneberger.
“I have not received those names from the KACC, but we are investigating what we have got from our intelligence sources,” he said.
Mr Ranneberger last week visited the KACC offices and handed a report containing names of alleged drug barons to the commission’s director PLO Lumumba. It is believed some of the barons are prominent personalities banned from travelling to the US.
Mr Iteere announced on Wednesday that he had commissioned a team of highly qualified detectives to undertake the probe.
“What I can tell from the intelligence sources, we have names of personalities, some of them are very prominent and within a week or two, I am going to produce the results,” Mr Iteere said at a media conference where he also released statistics of drug seizures and arrests in the past two years.
He said the investigation headed by one of his deputies will be expedited as ordered by President Mwai Kibaki who has also called for the restructuring of the Anti-Narcotics Unit (ANU).
“You are aware that the President did direct that we do as a matter of urgency restructure and revamp ANU. Yes I do concur, and very shortly we will be restructuring ANU, this is a unit within the CID,” he added.
He said the investigations being carried out by the police were totally independent from what the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission [KACC] is doing after it received a damning dossier from the US Ambassador Michael Ranneberger.
“I have not received those names from the KACC, but we are investigating what we have got from our intelligence sources,” he said.
Mr Ranneberger last week visited the KACC offices and handed a report containing names of alleged drug barons to the commission’s director PLO Lumumba. It is believed some of the barons are prominent personalities banned from travelling to the US.