Mbanje trafficker in accident, 259kg recovered
Alert police officers became suspicious and gave chase. The driver of the Ford Ranger vehicle lost control, veered off the road, overturned and landed on its roof.
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Alert police officers became suspicious and gave chase. The driver of the Ford Ranger vehicle lost control, veered off the road, overturned and landed on its roof.
A police crackdown on drug peddlers and syndicates has so far netted 143 drug dealers with their bases being destroyed in raids that are being carried out in Harare and Chitungwiza.
Police in Bulawayo arrested two suspected drug dealers and recovered more than 140 bottles of broncleer and a one kilogramme of mbanje concealed under a consignment of groceries.
Two Bulawayo men allegedly linked to a consignment of smuggled Broncleer worth $1,2 million confiscated by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) Tuesday before armed robbers raided the taxman’s depot and seized the drugs have been arrested.
Daring armed robbers raided a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) container depot in Bulawayo and went away with a consignment of 148 boxes of Broncleer, a cough mixture which was banned over abuse as a euphoric drug.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Thursday descended on drug syndicates which include drug suppliers and drug pushers in Harare’s Central Business District.
Former Highlanders football club goalkeeper Takunda Mutanga has been arrested after he was found in possession of a cough syrup, broncleer and mbanje along 6th avenue in Bulawayo.
Luck finally ran out for a Bulawayo man who was smuggling BronCleer cough syrup into the country when he was caught, for the second time this month, at Beitbridge Border Post on Tuesday as he tried to sneak in two boxes of the banned cough mixture.
Abuse of prescription drugs and pills continues to be on the increase among youths in Harare, amid revelations that cross border traders are smuggling the substances into the country.
The most testing part of caring for a sick toddler is administering medicine. It’s always a struggle, such that our mothers would sometimes resort to chewing sour herbs and later dispose it into the mouth once the bitter taste had subsided.