A report by the media team of the Waterloo Police Division has said that, “in an intelligence-led raid spearheaded yesterday by the LUC of Waterloo Police Division, CSP Ibrahim M. Sama, a total of sixty-seven (67) people, comprising ten (10) women and fifty-seven (57) men from various addresses within Waterloo (Tombo junction, 555 Park, Gbeyshan, Deep-Eye Water) and Madina Wallahi village in Tombo), have been arrested in ghettos and criminal hideouts.”
Those arrested, according to the report, were caught with a “huge quantum of Kush and Cannabis Sativa together with equipment (scale, scissors, plastic bags, etc.) used in the processing and sales of the narcotics were arrested by the Police as exhibits.”
“The Police demolished several makeshift structures (baffas) where the drug peddlers and users assemble.”
This moment is captured at a time communities in Sierra Leone including stakeholders are mapping out strategies to fight against drug and its peddlers, especially Kush which is having devastating effects on the wellbeing of the country’s youthful populations.
Meanwhile, Crime Officer of Waterloo Police Division, D/ASP Joseph B. Lansana, has assured that all those arrested will be charged to court in Waterloo.
