🇰🇪 Kenya Jun 22, 2026 · BRUHAN MAKONG

Pharmacy Board shuts down 48 illegal medicine outlets, arrests 95 in major crackdown

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NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 22 — The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) has arrested ninety-five individuals and closed forty-eight unlicensed medicine outlets during a week-long enforcement operation in Nairobi and Kajiado counties.



The arrests and closures followed a surveillance exercise, which concluded on June 19, involving inspections of 155 pharmaceutical premises across several areas, including Kibra, Korogocho, Eastleigh, Dandora, Mathare, Embakasi, Nairobi West, and Rongai.



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