The three suspects, two men and a woman, were picked up by the police at their hideout while packaging the substance for transportation to Accra.

ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, the Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, who confirmed the arrest to Citi News, indicated that the Police acted upon a tip-off.

“On December 28 at about 10:00pm, Police had information that suspects David Tetteh aged 43 years, a female Akpeteyo Tetteh aged 30 years, and Bortey Samuel aged 22 years, were in a room at Abenabo near Suhum processing dry leaves suspected to be Indian Hemp meant to be transported to Accra for sale,” he said.

ASP Ebenezer Tetteh added that, “the patrol team assisted by the informant went to the said house at Abenabo and confirmed the story. The stuff had already been parceled into eleven mini bags waiting to be transported to Accra”.

“The suspects who were in the house were arrested and they led Police to search the rooms in the house and in one of the rooms, the eleven mini bags containing the dry leaves suspected to be Indian hemp were found and same collected”.

ASP Ebenezer Tetteh indicated that the suspects are in custody assisting with further investigations.

“The three suspects are currently in Police cells while the exhibits have been retained at the Police station to assist in the investigation and they will soon be arraigned for the appropriate sanctions to be given o them,” he added.

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Madam Afia Pokuah and Issah Yaw were arrested with the substance and milk toffees which are also believed to contain Indian hemp.

[contextly_sidebar id=”CqgKN8gv4alVgyDZaPWTJY6OpvFH1OMw”]The Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Juliana Obeng in an interview with Citi News said the suspects are currently assisting with the investigation.

“The Tafo Pankrono Divisional Police this [Wednesday] afternoon, had intelligence that one Afia Pokua who is 64 years and a resident of Old Tafo, deals in substances she parcels in the form of condensed milk toffees and a local gin popularly known as ‘laka’ which she usually uses substances suspected to be Indian Hemp and sells to the public, has been arrested.”

“When we arrested her, a search was conducted in her room which led to the retrieval of those things. She mentioned Issah Yaw, who is 66 years as the one who supplies her with the suspected Indian Hemp. Now suspect, Afia Pokua then led the police to arrest Issah Yaw also in his room at Old Tafo. As we speak, both suspects are in police custody assisting with investigations. Meanwhile the substances will be sent to the forensic laboratory in Accra for forensic analysis,” ASP Obeng added.

She further advised the public to be cautious of condensed milk toffees they buy since they could be mixed with Indian Hemp.

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The two, Evelyn Adade Korkor, 19 years, and  Felix Gyimah, 18, were arrested while attempting to transport 30 parcels of the substance together with cassava in 2 sacks from Huhunya to Nkurakan in the Eastern Region.

Spokesperson of the Eastern Regional Police Command, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, told Citi News the two suspects will soon be arraigned.

Narrating circumstances leading to their arrest, ASP Tetteh said: “We have arrested two teenagers.  They were arrested based upon a tip off from the Police. The two suspects were carrying  two sacks of dry leaves suspected to be Indian hemp. They were actually compressed dry leaves numbering about thirty. They are assisting us in our investigations.We hope to quickly arraign them.”

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A statement from NACOB said the 3; Magugu Suraku, a Ghanaian; Maxwell Momo Golafale, a Liberian, and Daniel Njoku Egbuta, a Nigerian, were arrested on different occasions between March and April 2017.

Madugu Suraka, was arrested on Wednesday, 29^th March, 2017, while going through arrival formalities at the Airport on his return from Nairobi, Kenya.

The suspect, following his arrest, confessed to swallowing 35 pellets of speedball; a combination of cocaine and heroin.

Reports say Maxwell Momo Golafe, who was arrested on Friday, 31^st March, 2017, was on his way to China with 2 slabs of dried leaves suspected to be cannabis sativa, popularly known as wee, concealed in his luggage.

The Nigerian, Daniel Njoku Egbuta, was arrested last Wednesday on his arrival from Brazil.

A urine test conducted confirmed that, he had ingested 111 pellets of cocaine. Egbuta subsequently confessed to being an ex-convict who had served some jail time in Ecuador for a similar drug offence.

The NACOB statement said that, all three suspects have been arraigned for prosecution.

NACOB said it will “not spare any person or persons found culpable to illicit drug offences as stipulated in the PNDC law 236.”

It further assured the public that, it was committed to fighting illicit drug trade in the country, and called on the public to assist it deliver on its mandate.

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Grace Kusi, 60, a resident of Winneba was visiting one Ali Umaru Fulani who was serving a 15-year sentence in hard labour while Mary Nyankah, 22, was also visiting Razak Abubakar, a convict serving 63-year jail term in hard Labour.

Grace concealed 22 parcels of the dried leaves in a locally manufactured soap popularly called “azuma blows” together with five Samsung mobile phones, ten mobile phone chargers , eight earpieces , two Tigo sim cards and a miniature pair of  scissors.

Mary on the other hand, concealed 17 parcels of the suspected substance in similar soaps but luck eluded them as a thorough check by the prison officers on duty at the gate found the substances on them.

Confirming the incident, the Central Regional Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Prisons, Assistant Superintendent of Prisons (ASP) Daniel Machator said upon questioning, Grace claimed her husband, Fulani’s friend at Yeji sent her to deliver the items to the inmate.

He said Mary also alleged that her boyfriend, an employee of Tema Harbour sent her to deliver the items to Abubakar.

ASP Machator said Mary told the officers that the supposed boyfriend accompanied her to the place but he did not enter the facility with her.

He said the suspects had been handed over to the Elmina Command of the Ghana Police Service for further investigation.

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Source: GNA

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