Officers of the Hauts-Bassins Regional Judicial Police Service, acting to secure the population and combat insecurity in all its forms, arrested a suspected drug trafficker and seized 200 slabs of cannabis.[1] The trafficker was 61 years old and was arrested with other consumers who had come to stock up.[1]

The National Police arrested a drug trafficker and seized about two hundred slabs of cannabis at Bobo-Dioulasso, announcing the operation on Tuesday 1 February 2022 on its Facebook page.[2] The suspect lived in the city of Bobo-Dioulasso and stored his goods in a field in a farming hamlet outside the city, where he received all his clients.[1]

He transported his products by motorcycle from a neighbouring country at night along rural tracks to supply the Bobo area as far as Mali, and had done so for four years, according to the National Police.[3] The National Police thanked the public for cooperation that made this result possible.[1] It invited the public to become more involved in fighting drug abuse in all its forms, a growing scourge causing serious harm especially among young people in Burkina Faso.[1]