NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 2 — The National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) has arrested four people smoking shisha at a popular Nairobi’s Club Beirut on Friday night.
In a statement on Saturday, the Authority stated that the enforcement team that conducted the operation pounced on the four in the act.
During the operation, the team nabbed 5 shisha pots and 24 packets of assorted flavors.
“They were booked at Kilimani police station awaiting their day in court,” NACADA reported.
Kenya implemented a comprehensive ban on shisha in 2017 including the use, import, manufacture, sale, offer for sale, advertising, promotion, distribution, and encouraging or facilitating its use.
Kenya became the fourth country in East Africa to prohibit shisha, after Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. But even after the ban, nightclubs, still widely sell shisha in the country.