(17 Nov 2024)
KENYA HEROIN PROBLEM
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lamu, Kenya – 15 September 2024
1. Various men entering a ruined building and using heroin
2. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Mohamed Tai, heroin user:
"It is a very bad addiction but it is ignored by the community, government and other organisations which think it is the will of the person to continue using. But it is small reasons that drive you to start using and when you use it stabilizes your body, brain and your feelings. It puts you in a trance and you don’t understand yourself. Time flies and you are just there. You don’t think."
3. Various of men under effects of heroin
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi, Kenya – 19 October 2024
4. Various set-up shots of Boniface Wilunda, Programme Management Officer at United Nations On Drugs and Crime
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Boniface Wilunda, Programme Management Officer at United Nations On Drugs and Crime:
"When we look at illicit trafficking of drugs, we have what we call the southern route and this is the longer route from heroin production fields in Afghanistan off the Makran coast where traffickers do traffic heroin from Afghanistan, through the East Coast into the Indian Ocean, all the way down to Southern Africa and then through the West Coast of Africa as they try to reach markets within the Americas and then also in Europe. So they take this longer route in order to avoid the most stringent law enforcement activities through Eastern Europe."
6. Various cutaways of Wilunda
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Boniface Wilunda, Programme Management Officer at United Nations On Drugs and Crime:
"In the initial days, the East Coast of Africa was seen mostly as a transit region in the drug trade, but over time we see that remnants of these drugs remain behind and people start to use those kind of drugs and with time we see there is an evolving market that has been created. So, if we look at Kenya for example, initially Kenya was seen as a transit market, but it has become more of a destination market for illicit drugs."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lamu, Kenya – 15 September 2024
8. Various of men using heroin
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Naivasha, Kenya – 17 September 2024
9. Various set-up shots of Aziza Shee Mubarak, Clinical Officer at King Fahd Hospital Lamu
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Aziza Shee Mubarak, Clinical Officer at King Fahd Hospital Lamu:
"It is a very big challenge to us and we have tried several means to deal with… or to combat the use of drugs, so we started to have the methadone clinic."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lamu, Kenya – 15 September 2024
11. Various of patients arriving at King Fahd Hospital Lamu to take methadone as part of a treatment programme
12. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Bui Kitaa, recovering addict:
"Addiction was very bad on me. I did not have any friends, my brothers at home and even strangers on the road could not trust me. Nobody would hire me. But since I started using methadone 4 years ago it has helped me a lot."
13. Various of addicts using heroin
STORYLINE:
LEADIN
Heroin is destroying lives in Kenya.
The drug once only passed through Kenya on its way to Europe and America, but now heroin is increasingly being sold within the country, fuelling local addiction.
STORYLINE
A group of five men crouch in a ruined building on the island of Lamu, just off the coast of Kenya.
They have some wraps of heroin, which they prepare hurriedly before emptying the powder into rolling papers with what appears to be tobacco.
"It is a very bad addiction," Tai says.
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