The new Mombasa County police commander, Augustine Nthumbi, has taken cognisance of mid-day's extensive reportage, which revealed the exact whereabouts of alleged drug lord and business tycoon, Ali Punjani, in Mumbai. Nthumbi told this reporter that the Mombasa police will write a request letter to Interpol seeking the help of the Indian police, to arrest him.

We have gone through the reports revealing his (Punjani's) whereabouts, so we are writing to the Director of Criminal Investigation, Interpol in Kenya, to immediately seek the legal co-operation of Indian Police in the criminal investigation case against him," Nthumbi told mid-day. Nthumbi recently replaced Johnstone Ipara, who has allegedly been shunted by the Kenyan government over his suspected connection with Punjani.