The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has continued with its efforts to rid the country of drug trafficking.
The commission has therefore arrested a 28 year old man of Lusaka for trafficking in cocaine.
DEC Public Relations Officer Samuel Silomba identified the suspect as Malvin Mweemba of house number 303 Libala Township in Lusaka.
Mr. Silomba said Mweemba is believed to have been supplying drugs to members of the public at a named casino along Kafue road and was apprehended at Downtown shopping mall.
Meanwhile, Mr. Silomba has disclosed that the commission in North western Province has arrested five suspects in Lwetondo area in Mwinilunga district for trafficking in various quantities of cannabis.
He named those arrested as Lucky Fwayanga, 33, a peasant farmer for trafficking in 18 kilograms of cannabis, Patrick Mungwa, 37, also a peasant farmer for trafficking in 15 kilograms of cannabis and Stanley Kayona, 41, for trafficking in 6.2 kilograms of cannabis.
He said others arrested and jointly charged are David Kifinga, 29, and Joseph Sampa, aged 33 both of Lwetondo area of Mwinilunga district for trafficking in 12 kilograms of cannabis.
And Mr. Silomba said the commission has arrested a 62 year old man identified as Azele Nyirenda, a farmer of Muzabwela farm in Chief Mafuta’s area in Eastern province for trafficking in 8.1 kilograms of cannabis.
He said all suspects will appear in court soon.
ZANIS
hahahah plz continue clampin em down and removin these chap from da streets,our society z decayin with that drug.
Drugs are worst kind of evil you can bring upon yourselves.
Alcohol is a drug. Caffeine is a drug. If that’s how you feel, I’m guessing you’ve brought the worst kind of evil upon yourself.
Shani Nubian Princess… Vinasila?
Solola Bye!
ZP_ Zabwino Palibe.weed and Cocain arrest them then smoke yourselves and behave like kaponyaz.
Let’s hope its not the DEC Mafia nabbing this small time trafficker because he failed to pay them for the drugs the sold to him.
All drugs can be harmful when abused, but this is a public health problem, not a criminal one. The War on Drugs has done more harm than good (look at the number of people killed in Mexico). An approach that does not criminalize drug use, that regulates drugs (restricting some more than others), and that provides a variety of evidence-based rehab services for those who develop problems, will do far more in combating drug use than the DEC (or DEA in the U.S.). Portugal and the Netherlands have drug policies that Zambia should look at instead ones handed down from the U.S. and U.K.
Am suprised that you call yourself “anappealtocommonsense” Let me tell you a bit about drugs. If you had your only son finishing grade twelve with 11 points, a good obedient child who grew up in a god fearing and loving environment. He goes to university and makes friends with “an appeal to common sense” like yourself who convinces him that to fit in he had to do some drugs. All he wants is not be the odd one out so he joins in and does something that he had never done in his life. He starts having hallucinations about everything around him, the same appeal to common sense is the first to rat him out. He looses his place in university, looses the appeal to do anything else, wont stop drugs and is on the streets, your common sense would be different then. dont misleed yourself.
What drugs? Not all drugs give hallucinations. Losing one’s place at university, motivation, being addicted, all of that you can see with alcohol, and in fact alcohol has much more potential for abuse and addiction and overdose than many other street drugs (including cocaine). I’m not encouraging people to use drugs, but I’m saying that disrupting lives through imprisonment and killing people is a far greater harm than legalizing or decriminalizing drugs. Usage rates will likely not increase (see the Netherlands), and the drugs available on the streets will likely become safer (fewer dangerous “cuts”). Please watch “The House I Live In” to get a better understanding of the debate.
The cocaine (kokaino) and Chamba will be later taken by DEC to Chibolya for sale in the open.
You wonder where it the fight….. if not a smoke screen to enrich themselves at DEC.
let us help the DEC people to fight against Drug trafficking as well as Drug abuse and money laundering, in order to develop our nation.