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In the streets of the Tanzanian city of Tarime, where the ambulance driver was driving at an open tomb, screaming siren, his vehicle was carrying no sick person, but 800 kg of khat, a plant that grows in East Africa. Its bitter leaves must be chewed at length to provide a euphoric sensation.
"The ambulance was stopped Wednesday, siren on the move, as if it was carrying a sick person, but in fact there was on board 800 kg of khat, told AFP an official of the city of Tarime.
The driver was asked to transport a patient, but he refused on the pretext of a lack of fuel, AFP said. A police car sent to pick up the patient spotted the circulating ambulance and arrested him for a check.
According to AFP, East Africa and especially Tanzania became a hub of international drug trafficking. In May 2017, staff at a morgue in a Dar es Salaam hospital had confessed to the police that they had opened the belly of a drug courier who had ingested sealed bags to transport it to retrieve the precious capsules.
The body of a Ghanaian national was transported to this morgue after being found dead in a city hotel room, victim of an overdose.
Cannabis use is prohibited in Tanzania but the authorities fail to enforce the law effectively, particularly because of corruption and poverty.
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