By Alieu Jalloh
“52-year-old Momoh Mansaray, a drug kingpin operating the biggest ghetto at Kola Tick community, in the East-end of Freetown, has been arrested by the Harbour Police Division,” a police report has stated today, March 21, 2024.
According to the report, the move was “an intelligence-led raid supported by members of that community whose children and other family members have been adversely hit by the lethal Kush drug.”
The report also states that his sales agent Alex Kargbo, 28, was equally arrested during the raids with quantity of Kush and Cannabis Sativa (jamba).
“Several ghettos including those at Kamara Bar off Blackhall Road, Metzger Street off Alpha Morlai, and Culvert at Kanikay were also brought down by the Harbour Police Division,” the report reveals.
In his address to members of the public, LUC Kpulun of Harbour Division craved on the indulgence of the communities affected by the Kush drug to “cooperate with the police in the fight against drug abuse”.
“……these raids will continue until all the ghettos in my area of responsibility are demolished and the drug lords brought to justice,” he promises.
The suspects and the exhibit drugs are in police custody.
