12 arrested in Lusaka over 34g of 'special' cannabis
Zambia's Drug Enforcement Commission arrested 12 people in Lusaka, including three UNZA and two ZCAS students, for trafficking small amounts of potent 'special' cannabis. The weighed cannabis totalled 34 grammes, with a further 19 sachets seized without a published weight.
Zambia’s Drug Enforcement Commission arrested seven people in Lusaka, including
three University of Zambia third-year students, for trafficking in over 30
grammes of cannabis.[1]The three UNZA students were identified as Amadu Bah
Mwansa, 22, Siddy Gadjo Mwansa, 22, and Kitonzui Mesala, 24, who were found with
12.5 grammes of special cannabis along with one suspected sachet of heroin.[1]The four others arrested with them were Neyma Camara, 19, Robinson Chibwe, 28,
bus conductor Cloud Kabwe and bus driver Mathias Banda, for trafficking in 21.5
grammes of cannabis.[1]
The four were picked from UNZA while driving a Pajero IO registration number ALD
5604 and were believed to be major suppliers of drugs in the area.[1]Two
Zambia Centre for Accountancy Studies students, Kachizya Mulenga, 20, and Choma
Chato, 19, were jointly charged with Shawa Mwale, 23, Gift Kumwala, 36, and
Samson Sinkala, 25, for trafficking in 19 sachets of special cannabis.[1]The
DEC said the variety, also called special cannabis or cheese on the market, was
suspected to have been imported from a named country in southern Africa and was
believed to be more potent than locally grown cannabis.[1]
Arrangements were being made for all the suspects to appear before courts of
competent jurisdiction at an appropriate time.[2]The Lusaka operation charged
trafficking in cannabis contrary to Cap 96 of the Laws of Zambia.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No weight was published for the 19 sachets of special cannabis, so they are not included in the seized total.
The heroin also reported with the UNZA students and the heroin-only Chilenje arrests are excluded from cannabis figures under the substance scope.
The same DEC statement also reports a separate 421kg cultivation case in Shabati village, Chipangali District, which is a different event left out here.
No separate date for the arrests was given beyond the Wednesday DEC statement; 6 January 2021, the earlier publication date, stands in for the event date.
No published photograph was identified as showing this operation; the listed page images carry no caption tying them to the event.
No later court outcome was reported in the opened sources.
Zambia's Drug Enforcement Commission arrested and jointly charged a Malawian man and a Zambian woman over 175 kg of dry cannabis carried from Malawi into Zambia through Lumezi district. Both were on the commission's watch list for cross-border trafficking.
Zambia's Drug Enforcement Commission arrested four suspects and seized 25.4 kg of cannabis in intelligence-led operations across Muchinga, Southern and Lusaka provinces. Those held included Binwell Chanda with 18.5 kg in Mafinga, Selina Mwalama with 4.6 kg in Sinazongwe and a Congolese national with 2.3 kg at Chirundu, all awaiting court.
Zambia's Drug Enforcement Commission arrested five suspects after intercepting a Copperbelt-bound public bus near Kasanda Police Station in Kabwe. The bus allegedly carried high-grade cannabis and Benylin with codeine, and the suspects were held for court.
Zambia's Drug Enforcement Commission arrested Tanzanian national Ahmed Muharram in Lilayi, Lusaka, seizing 1,380.8 kg of high-grade cannabis linked to him. Six other suspects were held in the same coordinated operations, including two Burundian nationals in Chirundu, and all awaited court.
