Police officers based out of Bulawayo are raising concerns about secretive Vuzu parties as students head into their school break, according to Inspector Nomalanga Msebele. The gatherings have gotten seriously out of hand with minors drinking heavily, doing hard drugs like crystal meth and sketchy codeine mixes, and getting into dangerous situations involving sexual exploitation and violence.
Msebele says organizers are setting these things up through social media to dodge detection, and older drug dealers are specifically targeting the events because young people are easier to manipulate. Cops have been finding unconscious teens at these parties, and some kids are showing up to school totally wrecked from what happened the night before.
The department is planning raids and promising arrests for anyone running these operations. Msebele wants parents to actually pay attention to where their kids are going during the holidays, and she's asking neighbors to snitch on any suspicious gatherings they spot.
Msebele says organizers are setting these things up through social media to dodge detection, and older drug dealers are specifically targeting the events because young people are easier to manipulate. Cops have been finding unconscious teens at these parties, and some kids are showing up to school totally wrecked from what happened the night before.
The department is planning raids and promising arrests for anyone running these operations. Msebele wants parents to actually pay attention to where their kids are going during the holidays, and she's asking neighbors to snitch on any suspicious gatherings they spot.
