The Anti-Narcotic Police Unit at Entebbe International Airport is holding a 29-year-old woman on charges of drug trafficking from Uganda to India.
Charles Twine, the Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID spokesperson has identified the suspects as Carol Birungi who was found with 90 palates of heroin drugs, which were reportedly concealed in her private parts over the weekend.
Her arrest followed an intelligence report that Birungi together with others still at large, had in January smuggled Heroin drug palates from Ethiopia to Uganda using one of the porous borders in Eastern part of Uganda.
According to Police, drug traffickers who come into Uganda go as far as marrying Ugandan girls, whom they train into the illicit trade business.
Twine explains that although various measures have been put in place to combat the illicit trafficking of drugs, Traffickers are still maneuvering and smuggling drugs without being detected at the airports including Entebbe Airport, using different methods.
Initially, Entebbe Airport would scan a person moving out of the country, before it was stopped when Human activists protested it, arguing that it was a violation of human rights scanning someone and being in position to watch his or her nakedness they are not suspects.
Records at the Anti-Narcotics Unit at Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID show that 7,328 people were arrested in the last two years for illegally buying, selling and smuggling the intoxicating drugs.
