Gogo found with 4kg dagga wrapped around her waist
An 82-year-old woman has been arrested in Mpumalanga after she was found in possession of dagga to the value of R6 000.
She was arrested on Thursday while travelling in a taxi with the drugs, which weighed almost 4 kilogram, wrapped around her waist.
The elderly woman was on her way from Nkomazi near Eswatini to Bushbuckridge at the time of her arrest.
She appeared in the Nkomazi Magistrate's Court on Friday where her case was eventually struck of the roll due to incorrect information on the docket.
While the elderly woman has managed to escape any jail time – for now - provincial commissioner Semakaleng Manamela says police take no pleasure in arresting senior citizens.
"It is really a cause for concern to find yourself in a situation, as a police officer, having to arrest a pensioner. Senior citizens and adults in general are supposed to be exemplary by obeying the law not the other way round.
“But be as it may, we are there to enforce the law without fear or favour and we hope that others will learn from this exercise."
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