Author: W. Kadi (LLB/LLM, Chevening Alumni 22/23).
Somebody, everybody, we need your voice and action as the license to kill this foreign demon passing through the Islands.
On 22 February 2024, SBM Online published an article about police seizing drugs. This ‘drugs’ it was referring to is actually methamphetamine or meth for short. In the streets it is referred to as ice.
On 25 January 2024, a similar story was also published by the national, a news & media outlet from Papua New Guinea. The same drug was also transiting through PNG on its way to Australia, and it was organized by a Chinese-born businesswoman – such an idiot! Good she’s been arrested in Brisbane and hopefully bris-banned for life.
On 3rd February 2024, RNZ published an article about another meth bust in Fiji. A local was one of the many arrested. He was said to be someone that usually exports kava to Australia. This kava dude was charged in part with concealing 1.1 tones of the meth at a property in some location there.
The above sneak peaks into different news sources describing the drug and its presence in at least three of the biggest Island countries in the Pacific, is seriously alarming and disturbing. Further details need to be known about the origins and destination for the meth coming through Honiara, Solomon Islands. For the Fiji bust and the PNG-related arrest in Brisbane, it was stated that Australia is the final destination.
Regardless of reaching its destination or not, the fact that these drugs are routed through the Islands is already a concern. That said, the younger generation who may seek hype, peer-approval, and new experiences, are extremely vulnerable and could fall trap into this drug route – dwarfing the already difficult situation with kwaso and marijuana. Some may have already been pounded by kwaso recording years of cheap partying, to the point where they’d just need something else to kill themselves quicker. Some may already be too bored with their unemployed self that they might not give any bloody fruit punch of a doubt at all to just give it a go – and there they would go, goodbye.
Rumour has it that a lot of the violent happenings lately in Honiara relates to the use of meth. That said – it doesn’t matter whether the rumours are true or not. Meth is a highly addictive stimulant drug, and it contributes most to violent crimes.
Everyone – the churches, government, private sector, families, friends, educators, police, and literally just anyone; we must make sure to drive out this stupidity and work together. If Satan is a drug, its meth.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, young and old, be vigilant – meth the killer is here. Say no to meth or say amen to your life. Let’s just stick to kava and betelnut, they’re bad, but not evil.
But most importantly, coming back to the recent bust by police in Honiara, people should really be concerned in the way how the drug was handled and destroyed. It could be truly destroyed, or it could be somewhere else. Remember the missing $300k for the one-link case that was kept in police custody as evidence? I’m just saying.
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