DLEAG in collaboration with KEYCDA commenced a two days capacity building training for Executive Members of KEYCDA and selected youth and children representatives from Kombo East. Held at Kuloro Primary School, the training aims at building their capacity on matters relating to drug abuse, illicit drug trafficking and related activities. It also aims at widening their understanding on evidence based prevention strategies as well as foster cooperation between the Agency and the association.
19 years old Ousainou Ceesay of Kuloborri Village in Senegal and 20 years old Matar Bojang of Brufut were apprehended on the 8 March 2022 around 23:15 hours GMT with suspected prohibited drugs. The duo were onboard a taxi with the registration number BJL 8804 T. Ousainou Ceesay who is a Senegalese was arrested with one (1) bundle of suspected cannabis sativa and Matarr Bojang who is a Gambian was clutched with three (3) big bundles of suspected cannabis sativa.
The Drug Law Enforcement Agency, The Gambia (DLEAG’s) Kanifing Municipal Regional Command clutched one Momodou Saidy, 58 years old Gambian National and a notorious drug dealer on Friday 8th October 2021 around 15:20 hours GMT onwards with twenty-one (21) wraps of suspected cocaine in Banjul.
This is the third time that operatives are apprehending Momodou Saidy for drug-related offenses. He was previously arrested on the 1st February 2019 with twenty-one (21) wraps of suspected cannabis and on the 24th June 2020 with forty-three (43) wraps of suspected cocaine.
Fifty-one (51) people allegedly face criminal prosecution charges that range from various drug offences such as possession, cultivation, dealing in prohibited drugs and trafficking.
The suspected individuals are 46 Gambians and 5 foreign nationals (Bissau Guinean, British citizen and 4 Senegalese). Their charges came after a drug bust in deferent regions in the country, DLEA’s spokesperson told Foroyaa on Monday.
The crackdown on crime (drug abuses) in the community continues, especially getting drugs and abuses off the streets.
For the reporting period being the 1st to 30th September 2021, the agency registered a total number of forty-three (43) cases involving fifty-one (51) suspects. Operatives seized sixty (60) big bundles, two hundred and fourteen (214) parcels and six hundred (600) wraps of suspected Cannabis Sativa. Similarly, a cannabis cultivation site was also discovered at Brusubi, West Coast Region, and Sutukoba village in the Upper River Region respectively. Operatives also seized some quantities and a cannabis plant from another suspect in Sukuta, West Coast Region.
