Prison warder bust with Nyaope

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PRETORIA – A warder at Pretoria Central Prison has been arrested for his involvement in a drug smuggling syndicate, Gauteng police said on Thursday.
The police’s Katlego Mogale says the warder was arrested on Wednesday after police received a tip-off.

“Police received information on Wednesday afternoon that this particular warder was going to smuggle drugs into the prison.”

He was found with 49 sachets of Nyaope in his possession.

Nyaope is a cocktail that includes heroin and marijuana and sometimes antiretroviral medication mixed with rat poison.

Mogale says it was a joint operation between members of correctional services and the Pretoria central cluster.

He says police are searching for more suspects.

The warder will appear in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Friday.

CORRUPT OFFICIALS

Meanwhile, Acting Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Correctional Service’s Koos Gerber says drugs and “things which make prison life nicer” go into prisons by various means.

“It’s hard for the wardens to stop illegal activities because we have 6,000 in maximum facilities and 700 staff, where most of them go to court during the day.”

He was speaking to Talk Radio 702’s John Webb.

The conversation was sparked by a report by the Sowetan newspaper that ex-convict Tshepo Salim Masango of Mamelodi in Pretoria said he made “big money” smuggling drugs, guns and cell phones during the seven years he was incarcerated.

Masango said, “At the end of the year, I probably would have made more than R700,000. I started smuggling the very same year I was convicted, until I got parole”.

He added gang fights and deaths in prison were fuelled by rampant illicit deals.

Gerber said there are inmates who come from rich and poor backgrounds in prison and sometimes the rich inmates promise the authorities money if they smuggle things like drugs or weapons.

“The inmates work together with the wardens to do illegal things.”

Last week Webb spoke to Vanessa Padayachee,National Advocacy Manager at the National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders about surveillance in prisons.

Padayachee said, “Gangsterism and torture are big issues and they not only affect people in prisons but will also affect public safety once the prisoners are released.”

She stressed the importance of surveillance in prisons.

Asked whether cameras would help stop smuggling Gerber said they would welcome any technology that would help fight crime.

“Although the cameras would help to an extent, it’s more about the safety of the inmates.”

(Edited by Gia Kaplan)
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EWN
 
Nyaope is a cocktail that includes heroin and marijuana and sometimes antiretroviral medication mixed with rat poison.
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They should just increase the dosage of the latter, will solve most drug problems in the prison and possibly the overcrowding factor as well.
 
MKFrost said:
They should just increase the dosage of the latter, will solve most drug problems in the prison and possibly the overcrowding factor as well.
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Why on earth do they put the ARV's in there? And where do they get them? Surely the people that are getting those things are using it themselves...
 
GhostSixFour said:
Why on earth do they put the ARV's in there? And where do they get them? Surely the people that are getting those things are using it themselves...
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They steal the drugs from patients. There are stories of people always losing their medication to drug addicts.
 
R13... said:
They steal the drugs from patients. There are stories of people always losing their medication to drug addicts.
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What a sick country this is becoming.
Still don't get why they put ARV's in their drugs..
 
GhostSixFour said:
What a sick country this is becoming.
Still don't get why they put ARV's in their drugs..
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According to the president's actions if you take AVR's then they probably think they don't need to shower...............
 
Hemi300c said:
According to the president's actions if you take AVR's then they probably think they don't need to shower...............
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Which, given their location, is probably a good thing - in their eyes at least.
 
GhostSixFour said:
What a sick country this is becoming.
Still don't get why they put ARV's in their drugs..
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You can't reason with drug addicts. Why do they put rat poison in there? Can't do any more than the ARVs, I think the only narcotics in the nyaope is the weed, meth or herion the rest are just fillers the addicts put in their misguided beliefs.
 
GhostSixFour said:
What a sick country this is becoming.
Still don't get why they put ARV's in their drugs..
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"As NPR reports, Dr. David Grelotti says that street use of AIDS anti-retroviral medication efavirenz (sold as Sustiva in the U.S.) may exploit the HIV drug's "well-known tendency to cause especially vivid and colorful dreams and other central nervous system effects. Hypothetically, that could enhance the effects of marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin and other illicit drugs." Also the other drug ritonavir (brand name Norvir), is thought to enhance or prolong the effects of some street drugs, such as MDMA or Ecstasy."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoonga
 
Said it before .. the inmates are running the assylum in this country!
 
There is a difference between whoonga and nyaope. the later is only heroin + dagga. the former is the cocktail mentioned in this thread. This is a common misconception by the media and scientists but you can learn more about such things by just hanging out with the junkies in psychward or streets
 
GhostSixFour said:
Why on earth do they put the ARV's in there? And where do they get them? Surely the people that are getting those things are using it themselves...
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When two thirds of the country is living in poverty and a huge majority of them are infected with HIV its pretty easy to figure out how they get their hands on the drugs, not to mention how easy it is to corrupt state officials , nurses etc.
 
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