IN NATIONAL PARLIAMENT DURING QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION:
The fifth phase government has managed to apprehend
3,486 illicit drug traffickers and sellers in the country since the operation
started, Deputy
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office
responsible for Policy, Parliamentary Affairs, Labour, Employment, Youth and
Disabled Hon. Antony Mavunde, has said. The deputy minister told
Members of Parliament during questions and answer session when responding a
question earlier raised by a special seat legislator Hon. Halima Bulembo who
wanted to know the fate of the drug traffickers since the government embarked
on an intensive operation to apprehend them.
The deputy minister said that out
of the culprits who are already in police hands for interrogations with others
who have already been arraigned in various courts, about 30 percent of them are
well-known big traders who without excuse would face the wrath of the laws of
the country once found guilty. He further noted that, the government continues
to take care of the 5,560 drug addicts who have been preserved in various sober
centres in the country whereby they are being enlightened on the bad use of the
drugs and the negative impact caused by the illicit drugs and how to get away
from involving in them any more. He says that, the law does not discriminate
when is being applied in accomplishment of any mission set by the government in
order to apprehend the defaulters as well as reducing the supply.
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