One of the most busy commercial hubs in River Gee, on the Zwedru- Fish Town-Pleebo highway in route to Maryland County, Gbeweapo Kanweaken, turned to “ghost town” on Tuesday morning when security men of Col. Abraham Kromah, the no nonsense head of the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA), took thier operations to the streets and communities in the county. Gbeweapo City in Kanweaken is always heavly engaged with business transactions and human traffic even on Sundays.
According to our reporter currently in the county on a tour, early Tuesday morning between 7:45 to 8:10 a team of LDEA officers riding on three motorcycles fully dressed in their tactical gears in sets of three, two, and one drove through Fish Town on what a by-stander described as “emergency operation” towards Pleebo.
Minutes later our reporter who visited Gbeweapo, Kaweaken observed the commercial hub to be quiet with less business transaction including the famous parking station. One petty business woman told our reporter, “It was not easy here this morning”. Quizzed to give details on what she observed, the business woman declined to go further.
On whether there was any arrest, the business woman said “I did not see any arrest” but, “the LDEA operation made many business people and commuters too leave the area”.
Since the appointment of Col. Abe Kromah and his subsequent taking over of office, the LDEA has since step-up its operation in several communities in Monrovia and its environs and in some leeward counties.
In the Sayon Town community on Bushrod Island in late February, George Ikpechekwu Obi commonly known as “Original Japan” who has been in the news of recent for possessing narcotic substances including KUSH was arrested by a team led by the no nonsense head of the LDEA, Col. Abe Kromah.
According to reports, including social media posts Original Japan has been importing millions of Liberian dollars’ worth of drugs within the borders of Liberia. Obi has since been sent to the Bushrod Island Magisterial Court for drug trafficking.
