{"id":161534,"date":"2015-10-22T12:27:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T12:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=161534"},"modified":"2015-10-22T12:27:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T12:27:27","slug":"man-62-arrested-over-kenkey-turned-wee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/man-62-arrested-over-kenkey-turned-wee\/","title":{"rendered":"Man 62, arrested over kenkey turned wee"},"content":{"rendered":"
A 62-year-old driver has been arrested by the Police for attempting to smuggle suspected Indian hemp to the United Kingdom (UK),after wrapping them in dried plantain leaves to make it appear as \u2018Fante kenkey\u2019.<\/p>\n
The compressed dried leaves had been tied in transparent plastic, wrapped in the dried plantain leaves and neatly packed in 10 unlabelled cartons. Each carton was found to contain between 10 and 20 of the fake Fante kenkey.<\/p>\n
Speaking to journalists, the Deputy Accra Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Timothy Bonga, said policemen, acting on a tip off, monitored the movement of the driver of the vehicle conveying the fake kenkey to the KIA and arrested him at the Aviance Cargo Section of the airport.<\/p>\n
He said the driver, identified as Yaw Opoku, mentioned a travel and tour agent, Kwaku Boateng, as the person who had hired his services to convey the consignment to the cargo section of the airport.
\nBoateng, according to Mr. Bonga, was later arrested at the Sonnidom Filling Station at Achimota in Accra. He was said to have mentioned the name of the owner of the consignment as Frank Akowah but could not lead the police to arrest the said Akowah.<\/p>\n