KASHFA NZITO LIBERIA: Msafara wa Rais
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wakutwa na zaidi ya kilo 297 za bangi. Watu 4
akiwemo kiongozi wa msafara washikiliwa kwa mahojiano.
== Liberia's Drug Enforcement Agency
has arrested the head of the presidential motorcade for allegedly using
an official vehicle to smuggle 297 kilograms (654 pounds) of marijuana
into Liberia from neighboring Sierra Leone, officials said Monday.
The motorcade commander, Perry Dolo,
was arrested over the weekend along with three other men after crossing
from Sierra Leone via the town of Bo Waterside, said DEA Director
Anthony Souh. The other three men were a Liberian official, a Guinean
and a Sierra Leonean believed to be a member of the armed forces, Souh
said. He did not provide further details about the men.
The vehicle used in the operation is known as "Escort 1," the jeep that normally leads the president's convoy, Souh said.
"He took the car during his day off to go do this thing. He was not on duty, but he used the official car," Souh said of Dolo.
Journalists were denied access to the
suspects because they were still being interrogated at the DEA after
their arrest by a joint force that included members of the Emergency
Response Unit.
"They are still with me going through
the process," Souh said. "We want to speedily send them to court as soon
as possible because the case is too high. Using a presidential car?
It's too big."
Liberia's DEA has in recent years
tried to combat marijuana farming in Liberia's interior counties, which
is primarily done for local sale and consumption. However, weak drug
laws have made the practice difficult to curtail.
According to the 2012 World Drug
Report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 9 percent of
Liberian high school students use cannabis.
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