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Mmadinare senior student busted for dagga

Dagga PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Dagga PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

FRANCISTOWN: A Mmadinare Senior Secondary School Form 5 student is in police custody for illegal possession of dagga.

According to Selebi Phikwe Police Station commander, Nicholas Kadiatla, the 17-year-old boy was arrested last week on the school premises.

He said that the Form 5 boarding student was caught red-handed with eight sachets of a green-like substance suspected to be dagga. “We are still investigating how the illegal substance has reached the school premises,” he added.

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