Bob Dewar

Visit to NDLEA and NAPTIP with Mr Alan Campbell, M.P

Accompanied our Minister for Crime Reduction in meetings with the Government and the anti-drugs agency NDLEA and the anti- people trafficking agency NAPTIP. These agencies are doing a good job. But cocaine trafficking from South America using West Africa for a transit route is a real and growing threat. Half the cocaine entering the UK comes that way. And no 'transit' countries can avoid corrosion to their own societies. Drugs destroy lives. Drugs finance crime and terrorism. New laboratories have been found in Guinea.

Met Commissioners of ECOWAS too and it is good that there is an action plan on the table to enhance co-operation up and down the coast. We've all got to help- and also help individual countries up their game. This really is urgent. Every country must wake up and make itself hostile to drugs trafficking. Finally we visited a shelter for some young women who had been rescued from being trafficked. Very moving to meet them. They are making lovely hats and jewellry to make money and start a new life. 

Posted at 13:50 15 October 2009 by Bob Dewar  |  Comments[1]