Commitment by security forces to cleanse hideouts of hoodlums and brigands, and especially organising special crackdown on perpetrators of illicit drug possession, sale, and consumption is paying off. Police in the economic capital last week made two successive crackdowns on agents of the underworld, unleashing huge quantities of cannabis, also called Indian hemp, or most commonly 'Banga'.

In two separate operations organised by the Littoral Regional Division of the Judicial Police, the Mobile Intervention Unit N°2 and the Rapid Intervention Unit, six individuals were caught with huge quantity of the illicit substance.

In the first operation which was jointly carried out by the elements of the anti-criminal brigade of the Judicial Police and the Mobile Intervention Unit N°2 in Douala, two individuals; Francis Suh and Jakober Ndjessi were caught at the quarter called Vallee Bessengue with 25 packets of Cannabis, seven mobile phones and 21 DVD's.

Acting on an informer's tip and following instructions from security forces' hierarchy for the intensification of the fight against consumption and sale of the illicit drug in Douala, the policemen arrested the suspects.

The second operation took place at the Ndogpassi II neighbourhood by security forces of the Rapid Intervention Unit in Douala. Four suspects, Franck Joel Fossi Defo, Sylvain Idrisse Bekam, Francois Dima and Arnaud Assoung were taken into custody with a bag containing 1kg of Cannabis.