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Gambia Discovers three Tonnes Of Cocaine in Salt Shipment.

Etha Ugoh January 9, 2021 33


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Gambia Law Enforcement officers discover nearly three tonnes of cocaine hidden in a salt shipment from Ecuador.

Officers searching a container in the port of the capital Banjul on Thursday found 118 bags of the illegal white powder labelled as industrial salt, according to a statement from The Gambia’s Drug Law Enforcement Agency (DLEAG).

The container was said to be part of a consignment of four containers originating from the Ecuadorian port of Guayaquil.

DLEAG’s intelligence director, Lamin Gassama told AFP that the 2.9 tonnes (6,400 pounds) represented the largest ever drugs haul in The Gambia, a poor nation of some two million people, and the smallest on mainland Africa.

He added that the seizure was worth approximately $88.5 million.

In its statement, The Gambia’s drugs agency said that local law enforcement is searching for the consignment’s owner, a 37-year-old French national named Banta Keita.

West Africa is an important transit region for cocaine trafficked from South America into Europe, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Seizure of the narcotic across the African continent rose from 1.2 tonnes in 2015 to 5.6 tonnes in 2018, the agency said in a report in June.

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