Uganda: Slum Areas, Posh Pubs Biggest Drug Hubs

7 January 2013

Drug barons have infused narcotic drugs into the local market, posing a huge threat to public health and safety, the Police have warned. Simon Masaba explores how the drug business is booming in Uganda.

It has emerged that sly drug dealers have made in-roads into institutions of higher learning, secretly vending pancakes laced with cocaine and heroine. The Police say they have intelligence that narcotic drugs which are adulterated are being peddled in mainly suburbs dominated by foreigners.

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