Talk about a truly bizarre bust! A man was arrested at Nairobi’s main airport this week with over 2,200 live garden ants stashed in his luggage. In an interesting twist, this isn’t a one-off; insect smuggling in Kenya is instead a growing issue.
Per Reuters, authorities caught 27-year-old Chinese national Zhang Kequn at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Tuesday as he was trying to leave the country. Immigration officials had actually flagged a “stop order” on Zhang’s passport because he’d managed to evade arrest in Kenya just last year.
