Police have arrested a driver who
attempted smuggling to the United
Kingdom (UK), suspected Indian
hemp wrapped in dried plantain
leaves, which appeared as ‘Fante
kenkey.’
The 62-year-old driver, Yaw Opoku,
was arrested on his way to the
Kotoka International Airport (KIA),
while possessing the compressed
dried leaves which had been tied in
transparent plastic, wrapped in the
dried plantain leaves and neatly
packed in 10 unlabelled cartons.
Addressing the media, the Deputy
Accra Regional Police Commander,
Assistant Commissioner of Police
(ACP) Mr Timothy Y. Bonga, said
about 8 p.m. on October 19, 2015,
the police received information about
an attempt by some persons to
smuggle compressed dried leaves
suspected to be Indian hemp from
Ghana to the UK.
He said the intelligence gathered
showed that a Hyundai mini bus, with
registration number GB 5409-12, was
being used for the operation.
“The Accra Regional Police Command
dispatched a team of detectives to
the KIA to lay surveillance and arrest
the suspect,” he said.
He said, while the plain-clothes
police detectives laid ambush, the
Hyundai mini bus was spotted about
10:30 p.m. heading towards the
Aviance Cargo Section of the airport.
“The team intercepted the vehicle and
when a search was conducted, 10
cartons of compressed dried leaves
neatly packaged and concealed in
dried plantain leaves wrapped in
transparent plastic were retrieved
from the mini bus,” Mr Bonga said.
According to Mr Bonga, a travel and
tour agent, Kwaku Boateng, has been
found to be the person who had hired
the services of the driver to convey
the consignment to the cargo section
of the airport.
Boateng, who was then arrested at
the Sonnidom Filling Station at
Achimota in Accra, later mentioned
the name of the owner of the
consignment as Frank Akowah but
could not lead the police to arrest the
said Akowah.
The police have however intensified
efforts to arrest Akowah, pending
further investigations.
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