Young man held as 6 kg of liamba seized in Bissau's Quelélé
Guinea-Bissau's Judicial Police dismantled a liamba sales network in Bissau's Quelélé neighbourhood, detaining a young man and seizing six kilograms of liamba. The same announcement covered a separate airport cocaine case whose detention and drugs are excluded from this cannabis report.
Guinea-Bissau’s Polícia Judiciária dismantled a network selling liamba in the
Quelélé neighbourhood of Bissau and detained a young man of the male sex in that
operation.[1]The account identifies liamba in parentheses as cânhamo,
explaining the local term for the cannabis product.[1]A source from that
criminal-investigation police force announced the Bissau operations in the city
on that day.[1]
Officers seized six kilograms of liamba in connection with the dismantled
Quelélé sales network.[1]The Quelélé cannabis operation was presented as
another distinct operation alongside the airport cocaine case in Bissau.[1]The separate airport case involved a man of Guinean nationality detained at the
Osvaldo Vieira international airport.[1]He was held with 49 capsules of
cocaine weighing about 600 grams.[1]
The same source explained that the airport detainee had come from Brazil to
Morocco and then taken the connection to Bissau.[1]Quelélé is described as a
bairro, a neighbourhood, in Bissau.[1]Osvaldo Vieira, where the separate
cocaine detention occurred, is identified as an international airport.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
6 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (6 kg)
Activity
Sale
Setting
Airport
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
O Jogoojogo.ptPTPJ da Guiné-Bissau apreende cocaína e seis quilogramas de liamba
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no separate date for the Quelélé operation; 23 October 2017 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No charges, custody decision or court outcome for the detained young man were reported.
The detained young man's name and exact age were not published.
The six-kilogram figure is the PJ source's amount as reported by Lusa; no independent weighing or valuation was published.
The airport cocaine case (49 capsules weighing about 600 grams and one Guinean detainee travelling Brazil-Morocco-Bissau) is mentioned only to explain the same announcement and is excluded from cannabis figures and the arrested count.
The arrested figure of one reflects only the Quelélé cannabis detention; the second detention reported across both operations was the airport cocaine case.
Only one accessible account of this event was found after searching in Portuguese; no second independent source or agency statement could be opened.
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