THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested six individuals, among them a 33-year-old Congolese woman, for illicit cultivation and trafficking of cannabis across Lusaka, North Western, and Muchinga provinces. In a statement, Saturday, DEC Deputy Public Relations Officer Theresa Mawere said the Congolese national was intercepted at Lusaka’s Intercity Bus Terminus, after she concealed 33 pre-packs of high-grade cannabis in her luggage from South Africa. “The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC), has continued to make significant strides in its ‘operation Kufeza’ aimed at eradicating the cultivation, production, trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs through coordinated, intelligence-led operations conducted countrywide. In Lusaka Province, DEC officers, working in collaboration with their counterparts from Southern Province, mounted an intelligence-led operation involving a controlled delivery...

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