The country Manager of Africa Global Logistics Solutions, Captain Fabjanko Kokan has on Friday, 26th June, 2026 said that drug trafficking is not good in the country and the authorities need to save the children, grandchildren and families from drug trafficking.
Captain Koka made this statement during the commemoration of. World Day Against Drug Abuse during an event held at the New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown
The Africa Global Logistics Solutions together with the Freetown Terminal and Law Enforcement Agencies has commemorated International World Day Against Drug Abuse which aim is to, among other things, come together and fight against drug abuse that is currently affecting children young people and families in the country.
The occasion was graced by different stakeholders from different law enforcement agencies who gave their own opinions on how to end this fight.
Captain Fabjanko Kokan said this day is set aside for different stakeholders, law enforcement agencies and people coming together to see how they can work together to help fight drug trafficking in the country.
Manager Captain Fabjanko Kokan further states that drug trafficking is not good in any country and people should come together to combat drug trafficking in the country.
Manager Kokan further furthered that drug issues are affecting the community and the society and this, he said, is a target for everyone in the country to work together with the government and law enforcement agencies to be able to succeed in this fight.
He said the blame game should not be among the people as it would prove no results but will create more problems, adding that “if we are all together, we will be able to fight this issue in the country.”
Captain Fabjanko Kokan added that “drug trafficking is affecting every home, family and children of our future generation.”
He further states: “we need to do our best to protect and educate our children about this drug issue,” adding that he believes that if the children are educated on drugs they will stop taking it and will find a job that will earn them descent salaries.
He said people should not be silent on drug issue and that the purpose of coming together is to reduce drug trafficking in the country.
Life, he said, is not about sabotaging or casting blames on people but that there is need to come together so that we can succeed in this fight.
Captain Fabjanko Kokan said this is a chain of responsibility for everyone to help and not to leave the responsibility only to the, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agencies, Port Authorities and other drug law enforcement agencies in the fight. “We should stand strongly against drug trafficking in the country,” he urged.
He said the home is the first place for parents to educate their children about the effects of drugs and such campaigns will be backed by other law enforcement agencies.
Patrick Sannoh from the Freetown Terminal Limited in his presentation on drugs trafficking said the terminal is working at a fast pace to ensure zero tolerance to drug abuse.
He said the airport is targeting visional areas where drug trafficking occurs and this begins with awareness that leads to action of the process.
Patrick Sannoh further states that the terminal focuses on the logistical environment area, adding that other partners should stay alert to combat drug trafficking in the country.
Sannoh said the Freetown Terminal is vigilant in ensuring the combatting of drug trafficking in the Ports, adding that people should work with key stakeholders in the country to help in this fight.
Manager Customs Services Department, National Revenue Authority (NRA) Inah James in a roundtable discussion answering questions posed to him by Patrick Sannoh on the topic
When asked, what method or technique used in drug trafficking by the NRA? He responded that drug traffickers are very clever, adding that they are always miles ahead of them but intelligent is a very important way in combatting drug trafficking and that is what they do.
He said these drug traffickers have money and that they are very influential, adding that they may even try to take the lives of people who may want to stand their way.
He said when a container is at the quay, the people will say it contains packets of biscuits but while checking, the goods, they sometimes discover drugs like 225 Tramadol and the likes.
NRA, he informed, is very vigilant and ensures that drug trafficking ends in the country. On the issue of what method the NRA uses to confiscate containers carrying drugs, Manager James responded that the drug traffickers are very clever and manipulative but that the NRA has been trying to combat the fight even though it is not an easy one. He said goods are being scanned in the port before arrival.
On how NRA can collaborate with other law enforcement agencies to ensure the combatting of drugs in the country, Manager James responded that the fight is a collective effort by everyone and they will not sit down and see the youths go astray.
He said they have been working together with other law enforcement agencies as collaboration is needed in the fight.
Director Drug Prevention, Education and Training from the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, Ibrahim Samuel Dugba, in his statement said they are working with other security agencies like the National Revenue authority (NRA) Fire Force, Immigration Department and the Office of the National Security (ONS), among others in dealing with the issue of drug trafficking in the country.
He furthered that they have been destroying drugs found in the country and that they are always working with the above mentioned security agencies and the media whenever they are destroying these drugs.
Director Dugba further states that the destruction of these drugs are usually done at the Transnational Organized Crime Unit (TOCU) at Hastings on the outskirts of Freetown.
He further informed that 248 drug cases have been convicted in court and over thousands of drugs have been destroyed by them. He pleaded with people to stop discriminating those taking drugs but should educate them on the effects of the drug abuse.
He added that those doing drugs are being placed in different rehabilitation centers where they are been educated and taking care of by people.
He said the saddest thing is that they are not getting funds from international partners and that all the sponsors they receive are from the government and therefore they are financially constrained at the moment.
Mohamed Abu Fauh a participant said he has the conviction that the drug trafficking is a recycling thing, adding that if the youths are being arrested with the drugs by the police where do the police take the impounded drugs to. The police, he alleged, hardly inform the public as to where these drugs are being kept. Other participants also made in their own contributions on how to end drug trafficking in the country.