The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) unearthed a syndicate of major suppliers of the banned plastic bags in various parts of the country including Nairobi.
According to the agency, this was done through one of the suspects who was arrested in possession of the bags inside a mini-supermarket.
The suspect then volunteered to take the officers to the supplier in exchange of his freedom.
The supplier goes by the name Akley Bakers.
“Our environmental inspectors backed by the local police and NEMA’s police laid a dragnet for the suspect,” Nema said.
However, the suspect got wind of the plan from sympathetic neighbours where she is believed to have a major store.
Some of her accomplices were arrested as the officers are in pursuit of the supplier who remains at large.
