The Other Dimensions: Drugs producers and dealers challenge anti-narcotics campaign… what’s next?!

By: Musaab Brier

About 100 drug dealers, producers of “Bango” cannabis drugs held a meeting three days ago chaired by the head of the drug dealers union and the head of the East Darfur branch, to challenge the government’s anti-narcotics campaign, revealed security sources.

According to the source, a meeting of senior dealers and promoters discussed how to protect convoys transporting drugs from the production areas from South Darfur’s locality of Radom through Kordofan to the capital Khartoum.

Bango hashish smugglers always use motorcycles and four-wheel drive cars equipped with machine guns.

The dealers and promoters gathering comes as the first reaction to recently announced anti-narcotics campaign by the Sudanese government.

In 2021, scores of members of an anti-drugs squad were killed in an ambush set by drug producers and dealers in the Singo area of ​​the Radom locality.

A former promoter – who requested to remain anonymous – confirmed to Darfur 24 that the meeting of the promoters took place in a jungle with the aim of coordinating and garnering a financial support for the families of promoters who fall into the government detention and full bailout for convicts, blood money to the families of policemen killed in action.

The question is how would the government respond after the drug cartels had organized themselves in a blatant challenge to the state?.. What measures would the state deploy to confront these gangs who had dared to challenge the state’s measures?

All this is happening due to the chaotic security state the country has been going through over the past couple of years and the absence of the rule of law and lack of deterrent punitive acts other than sending convicts behind the bars, from which they allegedly run their business outside as typical of thugs and outlaws.

We would not ensure a healthy environment for our young ones to grow up or avert the children falling into drug addiction and traps set by dealers if the government, in particular, and the society as a whole wake up to the dangers of drugs.