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Welcome to Freedom Newspaper Online: "Smiling Coast of Africa is fast becoming a major hub in drugs and drug related activities. This is an unfortunate development which washes off on Gambian nationals travelling outside the Gambia. A few days ago, over two tones of hard drugs reportedly worth over one billion dollars (not less than 26 billion dalasi) was seized in this country. What is even more worrying is the discovery of arms when the seizure was carried out. It is stating obvious to say that where trade in drug flourishes violence also flourishes. Unscrupulous people are taking advantage of the weakness in our drug control system as well as the lenient approach of our justice system to this global menace. You and I have a responsibility to protect our country against this menace. This will not be achieved by mere rhetoric’s. We must do more than that,” Lawyer Ousainanou Darboe, leader of Gambia’s main opposition"