The Mombasa police raided the sprawling bungalow of business tycoon Ali Punjani, former husband of actor Kim Sharma, in a crackdown on drugs on Monday, just a day after its Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i announced a war on drug trafficking in Kenya's coastal region. Sources told mid-day that Punjani is suspected to be on his way to Mumbai to undergo medical treatment, possibly to delay or evade his arrest.

The Cabinet Secretary was in Mombasa to urge police to flush out all drug traffickers, sources in the Kenyan police told mid-day. Punjani's name popped up during the interrogation of Kenyan brothers Baktash and Ibrahim Akasha whose sentencing in a huge drug trafficking case is awaited in New York.