Crime & CourtNewsBy Nigel PfundeHarare- Will the real drug lord please stand up!Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has conceded that they are yet to establish the real drug suppliers and kingpins in the market,Express Mail Zim can report.Police appealed for the public to assist in identifying the source of drugs flooding the country’s streets, despite making several drug busts lately .G.O.A.T: One of the most notorious female drug barons from Latin America Griselda BlancoZRP spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the police are working diligently to identify the source or market from which the drugs are coming.“That’s also our question to the public, to those who are smuggling and committing crimes, where are they getting the dagga from? Yes, as the police, we have an interest and we are conducting investigations, but we also need assistance from the public to help us find out where the dagga is coming from, whether within or outside the country,” he said.The ZRP’s efforts have yielded results with 7 049 people arrested for drug-related offences since January including at least 935 suspected suppliers. The police are counting on the public’s help to bring an end to the scourge of drug abuse and trafficking.However, in a vox pop carried out by Express Mail Zim in the ghetto streets, it emerged that some of the major drug kingpins and cartels’s identity is an ‘open secret’!“Wangu majabhuna akazara kughetto and majazzman makuru anozikanwa chero neboma.(My friend there are lots of bases where the suppliers are known even to the police),” said a dreadlocked resident of Mbare who identified himself only as Ras Chapwititi.“Well, the drug scourge will never end when we know that top politicians some of them councillors are part of the problem yet they go around on television preaching anti drug abuse.“Some of them are female barons who can match the level of Griselda Blanco the infamous Latin American female drug dealer.“Drugs are expensive and it needs a rich person to supply the value chain .Those who get arrested are small players in the bigger game .Look at what Pablo Escobar used to do .There is no real drug lord who lives in Mbare,Highfield or Mabvuku , the cartel leaders are obviously people with proximity to power in Borrowdale,Highlands and so on .Imagine those Chinese national who were caught with cocaine in Highlands,so you think they bought it in Mbare?” said a University of Zimbabwe sociology student who preferred anonymity.Survey also established that cocaine is being abused at uptown city clubs by sons and daughters of influential politicians and businessmen.Leave a ReplyCancel reply Crime & CourtNewsBy Nigel PfundeHarare- Will the real drug lord please stand up!Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has conceded that they are yet to establish the real drug suppliers and kingpins in the market,Express Mail Zim can report.Police appealed for the public to assist in identifying the source of drugs flooding the country’s streets, despite making several drug busts lately .G.O.A.T: One of the most notorious female drug barons from Latin America Griselda BlancoZRP spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the police are working diligently to identify the source or market from which the drugs are coming.“That’s also our question to the public, to those who are smuggling and committing crimes, where are they getting the dagga from?
The police are counting on the public’s help to bring an end to the scourge of drug abuse and trafficking.However, in a vox pop carried out by Express Mail Zim in the ghetto streets, it emerged that some of the major drug kingpins and cartels’s identity is an ‘open secret’!“Wangu majabhuna akazara kughetto and majazzman makuru anozikanwa chero neboma.(My friend there are lots of bases where the suppliers are known even to the police),” said a dreadlocked resident of Mbare who identified himself only as Ras Chapwititi.“Well, the drug scourge will never end when we know that top politicians some of them councillors are part of the problem yet they go around on television preaching anti drug abuse.“Some of them are female barons who can match the level of Griselda Blanco the infamous Latin American female drug dealer.“Drugs are expensive and it needs a rich person to supply the value chain .Those who get arrested are small players in the bigger game .Look at what Pablo Escobar used to do .There is no real drug lord who lives in Mbare,Highfield or Mabvuku , the cartel leaders are obviously people with proximity to power in Borrowdale,Highlands and so on .Imagine those Chinese national who were caught with cocaine in Highlands,so you think they bought it in Mbare?” said a University of Zimbabwe sociology student who preferred anonymity.Survey also established that cocaine is being abused at uptown city clubs by sons and daughters of influential politicians and businessmen. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has conceded that they are yet to establish the real drug suppliers and kingpins in the market,Express Mail Zim can report. Police appealed for the public to assist in identifying the source of drugs flooding the country’s streets, despite making several drug busts lately .
ZRP spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the police are working diligently to identify the source or market from which the drugs are coming. “That’s also our question to the public, to those who are smuggling and committing crimes, where are they getting the dagga from? Yes, as the police, we have an interest and we are conducting investigations, but we also need assistance from the public to help us find out where the dagga is coming from, whether within or outside the country,” he said.
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The ZRP’s efforts have yielded results with 7 049 people arrested for drug-related offences since January including at least 935 suspected suppliers. The police are counting on the public’s help to bring an end to the scourge of drug abuse and trafficking. However, in a vox pop carried out by Express Mail Zim in the ghetto streets, it emerged that some of the major drug kingpins and cartels’s identity is an ‘open secret’!
“Wangu majabhuna akazara kughetto and majazzman makuru anozikanwa chero neboma.(My friend there are lots of bases where the suppliers are known even to the police),” said a dreadlocked resident of Mbare who identified himself only as Ras Chapwititi. “Well, the drug scourge will never end when we know that top politicians some of them councillors are part of the problem yet they go around on television preaching anti drug abuse.
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