56 sacks of cannabis found in a container at Mitendi
On 16 December 2025 Kinshasa’s judicial police narcotics unit seized 56 sacks of cannabis hidden in a container during checks at Mitendi, west of the capital, and arrested suppliers with more sacks and kraft paper used for retail packs.
On Tuesday 16 December 2025 the narcotics directorate of Kinshasa’s judicial police seized
56 sacks of cannabis hidden in a container during control operations at Mitendi, in western
Kinshasa, the Congolese press agency ACP reported from a police source.[1]
The same source said cannabis suppliers were also arrested at Mitendi with several sacks
and rolls of kraft paper used to pack the drug for retail sale, as part of Operation Ndobo,
and that those detained were repeat offenders.[1]A senior judicial police officer quoted
by ACP urged the public to report trafficking networks and lamented that some security
personnel were involved in the trade.[1]
The report did not say how many people were arrested or what happened to the seized cannabis
after the operation.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Security services incinerated at least five sacks of hemp seized from shops in Biakato, along with high-strength alcohol and expired goods, at a public ceremony at the local stadium on 7 October 2026; no sellers were named or arrested in the reports.
Security services intercepted 17 packages of cannabis at the SNCC freight yard in Mwene-Ditu on 4 September 2026 as they were about to leave by train toward Katanga. Mayor Gérard Tshibanda Kabwe watched them burned at city hall alongside urban security council members and SNCC officials.
On 14 March 2025 police in Matadi arrested Mavambu Kitsofi, alias Muke Tonga, and FARDC adjutant Barumé Moïse during Operation Ndobo, seizing 10 sacks of cannabis and kraft paper rolls used for retail packaging.
Customs officers at N'djili airport in Kinshasa seized 476 cartons holding 2,985 kilograms of cannabis biomass that was about to be exported without a declaration. The DGDA named Instadose Pharma DRC SARL as exporter and said the firm had medical cannabis licences but no export authorisation.
