With the ultimate aim of making Sierra Leone an illicit drug free, the Transitional Organize Crime Unit (TOCU), of the SLP and other law enforcement agencies have on Saturday 13 July 2024, set ablaze two hundred and seventy-three (273) Cartoons of Diclofenac and seventy (70) Cartoons of Tramadol, worth one million and eighty thousand United States Dollars ($1,080,000) at the TOCU Headquarters, Rgbangba Junction Grafton.
Ibrahim Kargbo, Deputy Director National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency said the destruction of the 343 Cartoons marks the third one this year following similar exercises in February and April.
He stated that the Tramadol weighs 4200kg while the Diclofenac weighs 6000kg bringing the total weight to 10200kg, noting, the Tramadol worth $700,000 and the Diclofenac $380,000.
Director of Crime Services, Commissioner of Police Ibrahim Lahai emphasizes that the ultimate goal of the destruction was not to have such Drugs in the country, adding, with such narcotics, the future of the country’s youth population is bleak.
He therefore called on the public to help with intelligence that may lead to the arrest of importation, sales and distribution of narcotics drugs in the country.
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