Anti-drug operation uncovers cannabis plantation in Conakry
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Mosaiqueguinee
An operation carried out in Conakry on 24 October by a joint unit of gendarmes and police uncovered a cannabis plantation and led to the arrest of several dozen Guinean and Sierra Leonean people. The intervention, conducted with the support of local administrations, targeted criminal hideouts and places where narcotics were sold and consumed, according to Guinean authorities cited by Mosaiqueguinee.
A joint unit of gendarmes and police discovered a cannabis plantation in Conakry on Saturday 24 October during an operation targeting places suspected of serving as hideouts for criminals and venues for selling or consuming narcotics. Several dozen people of Guinean and Sierra Leonean nationality were arrested in possession of illicit substances, Mosaiqueguinee reports.
The operation was conducted with the National Directorate of Territorial Development and Urban Planning, the prosecutor’s office at the Kaloum Court of First Instance and the town hall. General Aguibou Mouctar Tall, commander of the Conakry regional gendarmerie, said the operation was carrying out instructions from Fallou Doumbouya, prosecutor general at the Conakry Court of Appeal, who had called for criminal hideouts to be dismantled.
People without homes or identity documents were also identified. The relevant services are to verify their identity and origin, according to General Aguibou Mouctar Tall. The operation came two days after the Conakry prosecutor’s office called for criminal networks to be targeted, as announced in the Conakry prosecutor’s office order.
