KSO concerned over drug issue
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network

Chandel, April 30 2013: The Kuki Students Organisation, Chandel district (KSO-Chandel) has expressed its dismay over the rampant drug trafficking in Manipur.

"We will like to express our deep resentment over the recent trend of illicit drug trafficking incidents in the state of Manipur in which, politicians and bureaucrats seem to be the major stakeholders whereas the law enforcing agencies become the facilitators who earn a good sum of money in transporting the illicit items," the KSO-Chandel district said.

It then expressed that the recent arrest of 11 police commando personnel at Pallel by Thoubal police commandos for trafficking drugs, estimated to worth around Rs 3,64,02,000 in international market was laudable.

However, the students' bodies strongly condemned the involvement of law enforcers especially the Moreh unit police commandos in illicit drug trafficking when they should be the ones to arrest, it added.

"Drug trafficking by the law enforcing agencies are on rampant in the state; a couple of months back, the same commandos at the same place have arrested drugs racketeers led by Colonel Ajay Choudhury, PRO, Defence Wing yet, it seems there's nothing visible done by the authority concern to stop drug trafficking," the Kuki students' body said.

The KSO also said it is very unfortunate that, the law enforcers and the state government projected Chandel district especially the Moreh border town to be kind of Sadom & Gomrah (sin cities) Last year, when the state government deployed police commandos in the border town, Moreh denizens openly resisted deploying of police commandos in the town saying "enough forces, including Assam Rifles, Manipur Police and Manipur Rifles are already posted at Moreh, there is no need for police commandos" .

However, the state justified on the pretext of enhancing law & order situation of the town, which is ironical to what we have witnessed today, it stated.

The KSO then said it would like to appeal the Union government to immediately intervene in tackling the menace of drugs in the state, if not controlled on time many lives would be at stake where many youths would have also fallen to the prey of drugs.

"As 90% of the illicit drugs imported into the state have been delivered, transacted and utilized in the district, KSO Chandel district pledged to exert its best effort in controlling drug trafficking in the district," the KSO asserted.

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