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Large quantities of weed slabs intercepted by the Narcotics Control Board
The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has established what it considered the biggest narcotics bankruptcy in the country's history with the interception of 5,851 compressed slabs of what could be cannabis in the port of Tema .
The illicit drug, which has an estimated market value of £ 29.2 million, has been concealed in boxes of yam ready for shipment to the United Kingdom (UK).
Two suspects, Dominic Kojo Amenyo and Osae Akotua, both freight forwarders from the port of Tema, were arrested as part of the case.
A third suspect, whose name was given only under the name of Bright, also a freight forwarder, is on the run and an intensive search was organized for his arrest.
The names of the companies involved in the aborted export of yams and cannabis have, however, been concealed for security reasons.
Intensive research
NACOB executive secretary, Mr. Francis Torkornoo, told the Daily Graphic in Accra that the drug interception was the result of a collaboration between the Ghana Revenue Authority's (GRA) customs division and port police of the port of Tema.
He said on Thursday, March 7, 2019, customs officers at Tema Yam Park, where all the yams to be exported were kept for customs control, had become suspect when large quantities of boxes containing yams were imported into the United Kingdom. United.
Collaboration
Suspicious that some of the boxes may contain concealed drugs, Torkornoo said, customs officials have called on NACOB officials at the Tema port to help them open some check boxes.
When the first box was opened, it contained yams that had been packaged, but when the yams were removed one after the other, officials detected that under the box was a compressed substance wrapped yellow cellophane.
Following the detection of the substance, he said, all other boxes of yams were opened and searched and, during the process, 5,851 blocks of compressed leaves suspected to be cannabis have been discovered.
Freight
The executive secretary said that the two forwarders responsible for shipping the yams were immediately arrested by NACOB officials, who handed them over to the Tema Port Police for further investigation.
During the interrogation, Amenyo claimed that he was performing his usual rounds at the port when Osae, a customs clearing agent, called him to badist in the handling of large quantities of yam intended for export to London.
Amenyo then explained that he did not know who the real exporters or owners of the big boxes were because he had just gone to Yam village to attend his friend Osae, and that they help each other whenever the need makes it felt.
Compressed substance
For his part, Osae baderted that another forwarder, Bright, had called for him to come to take care of the document processing because he (Bright) had another job at to do and that he did not know that the boxes were filled with a compressed substance.
Mr Torkornoo said that a tablet of compressed cannabis weighed one kilo and that its market value in the United Kingdom was £ 5,000, bringing the value of 5,851 units to £ 29.2 million.
The two forwarders are currently badisting the NACOB in its investigations, while an intensive search has been conducted to stop all those behind the cargo, especially the yam exporters.
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