Fighting Drug addiction

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 Here's the story: We sat down with a man who had a harrowing journey with addiction. He began by telling us about his early days in tertiary education, where he would occasionally smoke dagga with friends. However, his focus remained on his studies, and he worked hard to graduate and secure a qualification. After landing a job, he started building a life for himself. He got married, bought a property, and even splurged on a car. Life was good, and he felt like he was on top of the world. But one fateful night, while out with friends, he was introduced to heavier narcotics. At first, the experience was exhilarating. He described it as an elevation from the mild high of dagga to a level 5 high, where he felt invincible and euphoric. The effects would last for days, allowing him to party from Friday to Sunday without sleep. The problem, however, began to manifest on Mondays and Tuesdays every week, when the withdrawal symptoms would kick in, and he'd struggle to function at work....
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Equatorial Guinea: Vice President Loses 25 Top Luxury Cars to Auctioneers

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Equatorial Guinea: Vice President Loses 25 Top Luxury Cars to Auctioneers

Photo: Nairobi News
Some of the luxury cars belonging to the vice president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Nguema Obiang, which have been auctioned.
1 OCTOBER 2019
By Hilary Kimuyu and Agencies
A collection of 25 luxury supercars which were seized from the extravagant vice president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Nguema Obiang, were over the weekend auctioned.
The auction was part of Swiss money-laundering probe in which Obiang is accused of misappropriation of public assets.
RARE CARS
The 25 cars include Ferraris and Lamborghinis and were expected to bring in Sh1.9 billion ($18.7m) on Sunday, according to the auctioneer, Bonhams.
Obiang is vice-president to his father, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea for 40 years.
Rights groups label his administration as one the world's most corrupt.
One of the most "rare and remarkable" cars, a 2014 Lamborghini Veneno Roadster, was sold for Sh860 million ($8.3m) to an anonymous buyer.
It is a new world record price for a Lamborghini sold at auction, British auctioneers Bonhams said.
SUPER CARS
The hammer price for the 354km/h (220mph) car, introduced to celebrate Lamborghini's 50th anniversary, was about 50% more than its pre-sale estimate.
An Aston Martin One-77 Coupe, described as an "absolute rocket ship" by the auction house, went for Sh155 million ($1.5m).
"Cars like this would be the jewel of any collection, but to have them all together is really quite extraordinary," Lynnie Farrant, press officer for auctioneer Bonhams, told the BBC.
A Swiss bidder told Reuters that an agent for a collector in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, had bought several super cars.
Swiss authorities seized the cars and ordered the impounding of a yacht in 2016.
CORRUPTION
The yacht was released in the arrangement announced in February, under which Equatorial Guinea agreed to pay Geneva authorities 1.3 million Swiss francs "notably to cover procedural costs," the prosecutor's office said.
Other cars sold at the Domaine de Bonmmont golf club on the edge of Geneva included a yellow 2003 Ferrari Enzo for 3.1 million francs, and a 2015 Koenigsegg One:1 that fetched 4.6 million francs.
Swiss prosecutors have been investigating Mr Obiang for money laundering and misuse of public funds, but dropped the case in February this year.
The prosecutors said they closed the inquiry into Mr Obiang as part of an arrangement to sell his cars to fund social programmes in his country.
In 2017, a French court handed him a three-year suspended jail term for corruption.

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