The region around Naples, Italy, is also supplied in cocaine by Kenyan and Tanzanian couriers. Here, the drugs are usually of a yellowish color and of poor quality. Moreover, repentant members of the Neapolitan Camorra criminal organization told the police that their former organization had sent chemists to Kenya in order to train Kenyans in cocaine manufacturing. Trafficking in hard drugs has domestic fallout in Kenya. The government maintains that there are only 1000 Kenyans who use heroin.
Prostitutes also act as suppliers of hard drugs.
Mandrax comes from India. It is transported to South Africa by air and by road via Tanzania and Zambia. Three labs which conditioned Mandrax into tablets were destroyed by the Kenyan police in 1993. 500,000 Mandrax tablets were seized in Kenya in 1995. Official and Private Corruption A case which was never made public, but which the OGD was told about by direct witnesses, tells much about the corruption that prevails in Kenya.