Six persons arrested for dealing in cannabis
Six persons in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality in the Ashanti Region have been arrested for allegedly possessing 267 compressed parcels of leaves believed to be cannabis.
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They are Emmanuel Kwadwo Baba, 36, who is alleged to be the kingpin; Kwabena Nsiah, 42; Abubakar Zakari, 54; Collins Asamoah, 21; Agyemang Amankwah, 28, and James Akpeney, alias ‘D-12’, 35.
The consignment is believed to be the largest to have been seized by the police in recent times.
According to the officer in charge of the Ashanti Regional Drug Law Enforcement Unit (DLEU) of the Ghana Police Service, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Charles Appiah, the police made the arrest following intelligence from residents about suspected activities of drug dealers in the area.
He explained that the crackdown, which ended on January 10, 2015, involved both plain-clothes and uniformed officers.
Facts
ASP Appiah said at the first base, the police arrested Agyemang Amankwah and later picked up James Akpeney and retrieved large quantities of the drugs from them.
According to him, upon interrogation, Amankwah volunteered to lead the police to the main supplier in the town.
ASP Appiah revealed that Amankwah travelled with the team to Ahodwo near Juaben where the four other suspects were picked up.
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He said at the time of the arrest, the suspects were happily and hurriedly offloading the compressed parcels from a KIA Spectra vehicle, with registration number GC1662-12, into an Opel taxi, with registration number AS 5268-U.
He said Abubakar Zakaria, the owner of the Opel taxi, had come from Kumasi to take delivery of the consignment to Aboabo, near Asawasi.
He was in the company of Asamoah, his errand boy.
ASP Appiah said investigations had revealed that Baba, who is a farmer at Yabraso, near Wenchi in the Brong Ahafo Region, was the magnate behind the drug business in the town and usually hired Kwabena Nsiah to use his private KIA Spectra to cart the goods from Nsawkaw, also in the Brong Ahafo Region, to Juaben in the Ashanti Region.
This is the second in a month that the police have seized such large haul of drugs in the region.
In December last year, the police arrested two persons on board a Metro Mass Transit bus en route to Takoradi from Techiman with a large consignment of compressed leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
They were also from Nsawkaw.