Drug Cartels Target Bots Airport
Monday, September 19, 2016
SSKIA
Two days after a middle aged woman was arrested at the airport in possession of different packages of cocaine, weighing 4kg, another woman was caught again at the airport with 15kg of another habit forming drug, a controlled drug called ephedrine, whose importation into the country requires the Ministry of Health’s permit.
The two South African females who were allegedly used as conduits were detained and appeared in court on Thursday last week, according to the Botswana Police, who describe cocaine as the second most abused drugs with rock or crack cocaine as the most abused.
The heartbreaking reports carried elsewhere on this publication of a woman killed in Metsimotlhabe and four family members perishing near Metsimaswaana Bridge are, devastatingly, not isolated incidents. They represent the sharp, painful tip of a weekend that has seen far too many collisions, injuries, and losses on the roads. This alarming spike in fatalities is a screaming siren we cannot ignore. It compels a direct and urgent plea to every...