Dodoma. Drug addicts are targeting unsuspecting children in English medium schools to get money.“They believe children in these schools are from well to do families and are given huge amounts of pocket money,” a member of the National Task Force Against Drug Trafficking, Mr Rogers Siyanga, told a seminar for MPs here.
Members of the task force, formed by President Jakaya Kikwete in 2006, are from the Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service, the police force, the Tanzania Revenue Authority, the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau and the Drug Control Commission operating under the Prime Minister’s Office.
Mr Siyanga said at the weekend that the drug addicts were putting heroin into chocolates and other snacks and sell them to schoolchildren.
“When the children eat them, they get intoxicated and fall asleep. It is at such moments when they rob them of their pocket money,” he told stunned MPs, including Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, National Assembly Speaker Anna Makinda and a handful of cabinet ministers.
By Lucas Liganga, The Citizen Chief Reporter
Members of the task force, formed by President Jakaya Kikwete in 2006, are from the Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service, the police force, the Tanzania Revenue Authority, the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau and the Drug Control Commission operating under the Prime Minister’s Office.
Mr Siyanga said at the weekend that the drug addicts were putting heroin into chocolates and other snacks and sell them to schoolchildren.
“When the children eat them, they get intoxicated and fall asleep. It is at such moments when they rob them of their pocket money,” he told stunned MPs, including Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, National Assembly Speaker Anna Makinda and a handful of cabinet ministers.
By Lucas Liganga, The Citizen Chief Reporter
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