By Staff Writer
Scenes from the Tafaigata Landfill where a truckload of dried up illegal marijuana plants were destroyed in a fire.
A year’s worth of marijuana collected from several police raid were tossed into a fresh dug out and set on fire this afternoon at the Tafaigata landfill.
The dried up plants were wrapped in blue tarpaulin and driven into location by a long bed Dyna police truck.
The Commissioner of Police Fuiavailili Ego Keil, deputy Commissioners Auapaau Logoitino Filipo and Papali’i Monalisa Keti, were joined at the site by several senior police officers.
“It is worth more than the cost of a small car,” Commissioner Fuiavailili shouted when asked from across the dug out by Newsline Samoa for an estimate of the illegal plants.
He also estimated more than 10 thousand plants most if not all were from police drug raid at the notorious Faleatiu illegal marijuana plantations.
It is not the first time the police has loaded up all the marijuana from earlier raids and set it on fire at the landfill site.
Commissioner Fuiavailili spoke extensively afterwards at the increasing illegal drug problem in Samoa and the fears of growing beyond the control of the police.
His full comments and video coverage of today’s undertaking to follow.
