By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
An intelligence-led raid conducted by the Operations Team attached to the Waterloo Police Division has led to the seizure of quantity of drugs mostly Kush, Tramadol, and other narcotics after being abandoned by the drug dealers, peddlers, and abusers who fled upon spotting the Police.
The police also demolished several Ghettos at Kono Park in the Bassa Town community, Waterloo. The ghettos were frequented by drug dealers and peddlers.
The raid which took place on the 7th November, 2023 was in response to the alarming and rampant drug proliferation in the community.
The substances apprehended were taken away by the Operations Team and are in police custody for further investigations.
According to the regular Waterloo Police Division’s press update, the operations team had earlier carried out similar raids in Waterloo and the environs of the densely populated settlement, outside the capital, Freetown, arresting several drug dealers. Those raids according to them Police were to discourage drug dealers in carrying out the illegal exercise.
Just recently, a local musician named Alhaji Amadu Bah popularly known as LAJ who is serving time at the main Correctional Centre championed a campaign to tackle the intake of “Kush” by youths.
His campaign, according to the Communications Officer of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service (SLCS), Chief Officer Leslie Cole-Showers, is to enhance society's efforts at mitigating the use of the substance.
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