105 kg of cannabis seized in Buganda burned near Cibitoke
Police burned 105 kg of cannabis seized in Buganda commune at Karurama, near Cibitoke town, on 20 June 2014. Police said the cannabis came from across the porous Rusizi border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
🇧🇮 Karurama, near Cibitoke, Cibitoke Province · Burundi
Police burned 105 kg of cannabis that had been seized in Buganda commune at
Karurama, about 2 km from the capital of Cibitoke province, around noon on
Friday 20 June.[1]
A police source said the drugs came from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]The same source described the Rusizi border as porous and said the movement
of goods and people was not controlled.[1]
Residents of Buganda accused some local administrators and law-enforcement
officers of involvement in the drug trade.[1]One elderly resident said some
police officers and grassroots administrators invested in the trade, which went
on openly.[1]Cibitoke police commissioner OPP1 Eugène Bizindavyi warned that
coercive measures would be taken against any police officer conniving with drug
traffickers.[1]
Residents nevertheless welcomed the police action and called for such operations
to be extended to other communes of the province to discourage the trade.[1]
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Police officers burning the seized cannabis. Photo: IwacuPhoto details
No arrests, charges or court outcome were reported for the seizure.
The exact seizure date and the amount are given only as reported by the police; the 105 kg figure is not independently confirmed.
The same article mentions a separate seizure and burning three months earlier involving 350 kg of cannabis and more than 5,000 litres of Kanyanga; that is a different event and is not covered here.
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