Nursing mother arrested with large parcels of 'wee'
The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Sunday
arrested a 34-year-old nursing mother at Dabala Customs checkpoint in
the Volta Region for allegedly possessing 44 compressed parcels of
suspected cannabis.
The items, concealed in two ladies bags and
weighed 34.83kg were discovered by Customs officials when a check was
done on the vehicle on which the suspect was travelling.
The
suspect, identified only as Bertha by the Customs officials, has been
handed over to the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) office at Afloa for
further interrogation and processing.
Confirming the incident to Graphic Online
in an interview, the in-charge of the Aflao sector of the Customs,
Assistant Commissioner, Mr Frank Cudjoe Ashong said the suspect was
arrested at about 2:20pm on Sunday, December 21, 2018.
He said the
suspect was travelling from Akatsi to Accra in a commercial Hyundai
H200 mini bus with registration number GS 4710-13.
He explained
that when the said vehicle got to the Dabala Customs checkpoint, the
vehicle was stopped and a search was conducted on it.
That, Mr
Ashong added, when the search was done, two ladies bags containing the
compressed substance were discovered in the vehicle.
He said when the owner of the bags was for, the suspect, Bertha, willingly owned up.
He
said the suspected at the preliminary interrogation admitted that it
was not her first time travelling with such materials to Accra.
Mr
Ashong said the suspect has been handed over to the Aflao police
station where she is being interrogated by Mr Samuel Yeboah, the head of
NACOB in the area for further processing.
He has, therefore,
cautioned individuals and group of persons who trade in such contraband
drugs to desist from using the Afloa border, adding that Customs
officers there “are on alert” and would not countenance such persons.
He said any person found with such illicit substances would be arrested
and handed over to the appropriate quarters to face the full rigors of
the law.
Source: Graphic online
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