Tanzanian Drug Traffickers

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This is getting out of control. Almost everyday now you hear a Tanzanian drug trafficker has been caught.

We are slowly getting a reputation like Nigerians. Soon our passports will be worthless

KL cops cripple international drug ring

...It is learnt the men were from Mozambique and Nigeria, and students in a local college in the city. One of them has been studying here for almost two years while the other had just started about a month ago.

Police raided their condominium unit in Bandar Sunway at about 7pm the same day and arrested another man from Tanzania. There, they discovered two more packages containing heroin and 142 capsules of heroin in aluminium and food plastic wrappers.

The capsules were meant to be swallowed by drug mules before being retrieved once the carrier reached his destination.

The amount of drugs seized at the condominium unit was 5.6kg, bringing the grand total to 8.6kg.

DCP Sabtu said the high-grade heroin was meant to be distributed overseas and Malaysia acted as a transit point for the syndicate.

"We believe the Tanzanian man was scheduled to take a flight to Shenzen, China today (yesterday)," he said.

KL cops cripple international drug ring

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2 Tanzanians die in Ethiopia

Published 02/10/2009 - 6:43 p.m. GMT Two suspected Tanzanian drug traffickers have in the last two weeks died in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa of overdose.

The two, Yahya Abdulkadir and Yosuf Said had been arrested by Ethiopian police after they collapsed while on board two separate Ethiopian airline flights from Tanzania to China and China to Tanzania via Addis Ababa.

2 Tanzanians die in Ethiopia

TANZANIA: Over 30,000 arrested for drug trafficking in two years
Friday, 13 February 2009
More than 35,000 people have been arrested for drug trafficking between 2006 and last year, the National Assembly heard yesterday.

The Minister in the Prime Minister`s Office (Policy and Parliamentary Affairs) Philip Marmo said greed for quick money was among the reasons why people involve in illicit drug trafficking.
He was responding to a question by Chadema MP, Lucy Owenya who had wanted to know why Tanzania was among the leading countries in the world for growing marijuana.
The minister however, said the government would not reveal the names of the suspects because some were still under investigation.
``Not all of these 35,000 people have been arraigned in court. Others are still under investigation, making impossible for the government to announce publicly their names,`` he said.
Marmo refuted claims by the legislator that Tanzania was among the leading countries for growing marijuana.
He however, said it had been difficult to control marijuana farming because it was normally grown in poorly located areas such as in heavy forests and mountainous areas, where state apparatus could not easily access.

The Zimbabwean - TANZANIA: Over 30,000 arrested for drug trafficking in two years

Man arrested for smuggling drugs
Saturday, 24 January 2009
The first man this year smuggling as much as 1.06 kilograms into Macau was arrested by the Judiciary Police on Thursday, after arriving in the SAR through the Macau International Airport.
The 30 year old man originally from Nigeria confessed to have digested as many as 91 capsules weighing 1.06 kilos of drugs in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, a day before getting on a flight to Macau.
Police received a tip-off of the man's arrival and were waiting for him at the airport. According to the police, the man also confessed he would be passing the drugs on to another man originally from Tanzania in exchange for 1,000 US dollars, around 8,000 patacas.
The second man was caught carrying as much as 4,000 US dollars, around 24,000 patacas, and confessed to having come from Hong Kong to collect the drugs.
Police believe the drugs with a street value of more than a million patacas was for sale in Hong Kong.
The number of individuals who have been arrested for smuggling drugs into Macau has reached 17 since October last year alone.

Macau Daily Times - Man arrested for smuggling drugs

Cops bust drugs, prostitution ring

January 25 2009 at 09:12PM

Six Nigerians and one Tanzanian national were arrested in Rustenburg for prostitution and drug trafficking on Sunday, North West police said...

News - Crime & Courts: Cops bust drugs, prostitution ring

 

[Susuviri]

It is indeed, very sad that more and more Tanzanians turn to drug trafficking, but I think it is the same mentality ya 'dili' that is taking us down the same path as Nigerians. We do not want to work hard to gain, we want everything now and all! It is not an individual problem but collective. We have to stop this mentality!

 

[Fundi Mchundo]

Ostrich like, tunaingiza kichwa kwenye mchanga ili tusione! Kazi kulalamika tu. Na huko Malaysia adhabu ni kifo kwa kukutwa na drugs. Hivi kwa nini hatuoni kuwa hili limeukuwa ukimwi mwingine kwa jamii yetu? Kwa nini hatuwaonyi vijana wetu kama vile tunavyowaonya kuhusu ukimwi? Mwanzo mzuri ungekuwa kuwashughulikia hao ma-don ambao nasikia kila mtu anawajua!

 

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This is the second story just today with Tanzania or Tanzanians somehow involved in Draug Trafficking. Our contry and people are slowly becoming synonymous with illegal drugs

South African man arrested here with 77 drug capsules in stomach
Saturday, 14 February 2009
Addis Ababa, February 14 (WIC) – More than 77 drug capsules were found in the stomach of a South African man who was traveling from Dubai to Tanzania on the Ethiopian Airlines.


Federal police crime prevention and control main department deputy head, Commander Tsegaye Woldehiwot told WIC that the man was apprehended at the Bole International Airport by members of Aireport Checkpoint Deug Control Division.



Federal police hospital medical director, Dr. Commander Bahiru Alemayehu said that the individual was admitted to the hospital after he was apprehended he caught.



The medical director said that the stated numbers of drug capsules were taken out of the convict’s stomach with medical treatment.



Meanwhile, the federal police announced that a large amount of cannabis was seized while being smuggled to Britain in more than 40 mail bags via the Ethiopian postal service.

 

[Jasusi]

Nadhani wakati umewadia kwa ile orodha ya vigogo wa madawa ya kulevya kuanikwa hadharani, hata kama ni wafadhili wa CCM potelea pote. Hii ni aibu kwa taifa, ni maafa kwa vijana wetu na hatima yake ni kuifanya Tanzania kuwa nchi inayoendeshwa kimafia mafia tu. Juzi nilipokuwa bongo mwandishi habari mmoja alinielezea jinsi alivyofuatilia gari la polisi lililo"wakamata" vijana wa madawa ya kulevya pale airport. Anasema vijana hao walichukuliwa na polisi na kupelekwa "guest house" moja ambapo baadaye aliona wakiachiliwa huru. Akaniuliza umeshawahi kusikia kesi yeyote inatajwa mahakamani ya vijana wa madawa ya kulevya waliokamatwa aiport? Kwani wametokomea wapi? Ndiyo Bongo yetu hiyo.

 

[Interested Observer]

Nadhani wakati umewadia kwa ile orodha ya vigogo wa madawa ya kulevya kuanikwa hadharani, hata kama ni wafadhili wa CCM potelea pote. Hii ni aibu kwa taifa, ni maafa kwa vijana wetu na hatima yake ni kuifanya Tanzania kuwa nchi inayoendeshwa kimafia mafia tu. Juzi nilipokuwa bongo mwandishi habari mmoja alinielezea jinsi alivyofuatilia gari la polisi lililo"wakamata" vijana wa madawa ya kulevya pale airport. Anasema vijana hao walichukuliwa na polisi na kupelekwa "guest house" moja ambapo baadaye aliona wakiachiliwa huru. Akaniuliza umeshawahi kusikia kesi yeyote inatajwa mahakamani ya vijana wa madawa ya kulevya waliokamatwa aiport? Kwani wametokomea wapi? Ndiyo Bongo yetu hiyo.

Mie nina wasiwasi kuwa hata hawa CCM wanaweza kuwa unga ndiyo biashara yao kubwa inayo-finance shughuli zao, ona ile list ya yule marehemu Amina, kikwete kimya; vijana wengi wameshikwa Airport, kesi zao zote hazijawahi kutajwa!

 

[Bulesi]

Wengi kati ya hawa wafanyabiashara haramu ya madawa ya kulevya wanajihusisha sana na chama cha mapinduzi, kwahiyo kwavile CCM ndio imeshika dola basi UFADHILI wa hawa jamaa kwa chama hiki unaifanya serikali yake ishindwe kuwathibiti wauza unga hawa ambao wanatuhalibia vijana wetu!!Tatizo hili litashuhulikiwa kikamilifu kama ccm itajirudi na kuwa chama cha wakulima na wafanyakazi na si chama cha mafisadi.