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Saint-Louis, Nov 27 (APS) – Penal responses are not effective against drug use, considering the large number of people in detention for this crime, said Tuesday, Professor Bissane Ngom, Director of the Training and Research Unit (UFR) of Legal and Political Sciences of Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis.
Criminal responses "are not an effective solution to curbing drug use", as we know that prisons are full of people detained for this crime, he said.
Professor Ngom was speaking at the opening of the 2nd edition of the West African Course on Human Rights and Drug Control Policies in Francophone Africa, in the presence of researchers from several African countries.
According to him, the courses of this second edition are oriented in such a way as to bring "answers" to drug consumption in French-speaking Africa, which presents itself as a zone of transit and drug consumption.
The challenge of this meeting bringing together researchers and experts, "is to show that criminal responses are not effective and prison sentences do not reduce" "drug use in Senegal in particular," despite the application of the law Latif Guèye, who brings a number of criminal answers that are still not effective, "he said.
The Latif Guèye law, which criminalizes international drug trafficking lasts, was passed in 2007 by the Senegalese Parliament, National Assembly and Senate combined.
According to the provisions of this law, the range of penalties incurred by those prosecuted for drug trafficking is between 10 and 20 years of forced labor, plus a fine equal to three times the value of the drug seized.
In terms of drugs, "there are those who use it to have fun and others who do it because they are dependent on it, despite the penal provisions" in force, believes Bissane Ngom, coordinator of this meet.
According to him, "new avenues are now proposed to respond to this problem, and the state has understood that since a strategic plan against drugs was adopted in October 2016", which "provides medical and social responses as part of the response to risk reduction ".
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