Calls grow for crack team to tackle drug menace

CHINHOYI legislator Leslie Mhangwa has called for the establishment of a national crack team made up of police and army personnel to deal with Zimbabwe’s rising drug and substance abuse crisis.

Speaking during a pre-budget seminar in Bulawayo last week, Mhangwa said the policing system had failed to stem the tide of drug peddling and smuggling.

He also accused some local law enforcement officers of working in cahoots with drug peddlers.

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