By Moses M. Tokpah
-Margibi (freelance)
The Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA) Margibi Detachment has arrested a 47-year-old woman identified as Fatu Sando and her 22-year-old son, Jonathan B. Kollie, in Kakata.
The two suspects according to the Margibi County Commander of the LDEA, Alex S. Flomo, were picked-up while selling drugs (tramadol) and gunshots in Gbandi Community.
Commander Flomo stated that while using a search and seizure warrant from the Kakata Magisterial Court, the LDEA apprehended Fatu Sando in possession of one hundred and 36 pieces of single barrel gunshots and a cash of about L$158,500.
He furthered that Jonathan was also caught with 22 strips of tramadol which street value is put at L$44,000.
The Margibi LDEA boss said Fatu and her son have been sent to the Kakata Magisterial Court awaiting trial.
Meanwhile, Mr. Flomo has vowed to communicate the situation involving Jonathan, who is a student, to his school’s administration with a recommendation of expulsion.
He lamented that the LDEA stands ready to recommend the expulsion of students that will be arrested, investigated and found liable for drugs abuse to the administration of their respective schools.
Mr. Flomo indicated that the acts of drugs abuse by students especially the ones selling them to their colleagues are causing a lot of harm to their future.
The LDEA commander believes that giving a student involved with drugs abuse an ‘NTR’ will serve as deterrence to other students with similar intention and further protect their future from being destroyed.
He cautioned the students to stay away from anything that has to do with drugs because serious measures are being instituted by the LDEA in the county and the country at large.