Ouagadougou: The Hauts-Bassins Regional Judicial Police Service (SRPJ) seized, in two separate operations, strips of cannabis from the hands of women of foreign nationality as well as 9,720 cartridges of expired hookahs introduced fraudulently on the market. The overall value of the seizures, made during July 2024, is estimated at more than 90 million FCFA according to the SRPJ, based in Bobo-Dioulasso. The cannabis strips seized from the women's hands 'were carefully buried in their bags. Indeed, the modus operandi of these ladies consisted of going to a neighboring country from where they obtained their drugs. This drug was carefully hidden in purses and bags of clothing. They (the ladies) then took public transport vehicles to go to their country of origin via Bobo-Dioulasso where part of it was sold on site by their accomplices,' explains the police. The police reported having picked up other plates abandoned by traffickers fleeing on criminogenic routes. As for the chicha tabamels, they were seized thanks to the collaboration of the populations who directed the agents towards an underground store inside Bobo-Dioulasso. The investigators, explains the police, discovered these products stored in 810 boxes, illegally returned to Burkinabe territory via public transport companies. The National Police reiterated its thanks to the citizens who work daily alongside the Security Forces to combat insecurity in all its forms. She urges them to always remain vigilant and to continue to report suspicious cases to the toll-free numbers 17, 16 and 1010. Source: Burkina Information Agency