Barely a day after the Liberia Refugee, Repatriation, and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC) announced that about 80 percent of the returnees from Ghana are drug addicts, the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) arrested a returnee and several others with drugs.
Addressing newsmen on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 in Monrovia, Director General Abraham Kromah disclosed that James Lawuba, a returnee along with others, were arrested at the Luogatuo border in Nimba County and other locations respectively.
According to the LDEA Boss, Lawuba was arrested with a grander in a bread and with marijuana in a sealed up tide soap bucket.
He indicated that the marijuana is about two kilograms valued at twenty eight thousand eight hundred eighty Liberian Dollars, (L$28, 880.00).
Kromah further observed that due to the emergency of the incident, the LRRRC did not search the refugees before bringing them to Liberia.
Director Kromah said due to the arrest of the returnee, the LRRRC has requested that LDEA officer to travel with them to Ghana to search every returnee before boarding the busses or trucks.
He said they also arrested two persons in Lofa County with huge quantity of marijuana. Those arrested, according to Kromah, are Andrew Akoi, 32.
He was arrested with six bags of marijuana in his possession weighing 50 kilograms.
Kromah indicated that the street value of the drugs is US$2,637.00. He also announce that Nathaniel Dolley, 51, was arrested with marijuana on his farm. The farm contains about 150 trees. The farm has since been destroyed by LDEA Officers.
“At the end of the day, all those who are involved with drugs will go through the legal system of our country,” Kromah assured.
On Tuesday, May 28, 2024, the Executive Director of the Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission, (LRRRC) disclosed that 80 percent of the over 700 Liberian refugees, who were recently repatriated from Ghana, are drug addicts.
He said this is a huge challenge that warrants the attention of the Ministry of Health, the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency and other partners to help rescue the situation.
