Gambia: '90 Percent of Inmates At Mile II Are Drug Convicts'

Bwiam — The public relations officer of the National Drugs Enforcement Agency (NDEA) has disclosed that 90% of those at remand and serving sentences at Mile II are drug convicts or suspected individuals. Modou Jobe made the disclosure Wednesday at Bwiam, during a session with over 120 youngsters who formed the participants of this year's summer youth camp, organised by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

He urged the youngsters and children in general to be conscious of the strategies deployed by drug dealers in executing their ill schemes, pointing out that school-going children are now being targeted. "The dealers believe no one will suspect or search the students," he noted.

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