Sex, Drugs Plague Letlhakane

Dagga use is common in Letlhakane PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Dagga use is common in Letlhakane PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

FRANCISTOWN: While sex offences have grown synonymous with Letlhakane, the village is also in the throes of drug problems.

Letlhakane Police Station commander, superintendent Michael Maphephu told The Monitor the village is also a hotspot for peddling and illicit use of drugs.

Maphephu said they have observed that since the beginning of the year, there has been an upward trend in the use of dagga and tobacco in his policing area.

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