ANOTHER HUGE COCAINE BUST AT NGWENYA BORDER

MBABANE – Is Swaziland gradually becoming a drug den as a E17 million cocaine consignment has been busted at Ngwenya Border Gate.

This question comes to the fore hardly a month after cocaine worth E24 million was busted at the same border gate over a month ago. On Saturday, another consignment was busted by the police at the same spot.
A Swazi man has been held in connection with the drugs which police estimate to be worth about E17 million.

The drugs have been tested to resemble cocaine. The suspect was nabbed by police officers on Saturday afternoon, while trying to cross over to the South African side in a truck which had the drugs inside.
A team of police officers who were at the border attended to the truck which was driven by the Swazi man and searched its compartments where the cocaine had been hidden.
Chief Police Information and Communications Officer Superintendent Khulani Mamba confirmed the bust.

He said the truck was nabbed on the Swazi side of the border while trying to cross over to South Africa.  Mamba said the suspect will appear at the Mbabane Magistrates Court today.
The bust also comes after the Daily Sun reported that South African police officers, Constable Macdonald Masilela (32) and Sergeant Silas Shabangu appeared in the Komatipoort Magistrates Court in Mpumalanga last week, in connection with a drug deal.

Their arrest came after a long investigation that started in August last year. 
The two were arrested by the Hawks and officers from Pretoria at Jeppe’s Reef near Swaziland border, early last Wednesday. They are facing charges of drug dealing and the illegal possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition.
According to the SA police, the two were allegedly assisting in moving drugs from Swaziland to South Africa and were dealing in drugs.

The two police officers were released on E1 000 bail each. In November last year, police arrested a 37-year-old man from Tanzania while trying to cross to SA with cocaine.
The suspect had hidden the cocaine in the spare wheel compartment of the Kia Sportage he was driving.

The street value of a kilogramme of cocaine is E400 000 and information was to the effect that the suspect had entered the country through the same border in the morning from South Africa.
He is alleged to have driven to Manzini where he found the vehicle waiting for him with the consignment and the car keys were in the ignition and he simply drove off.

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