Marijuana leaf

The police chanced upon the bags when a patrol team arrived on a scene in Ho where the leaves were being discharged from an Urvan bus.

Briefing the press on Wednesday, the Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commission of Police (ACP) David Ampah-Benin, said initially the driver and the occupants of the vehicle took to their heels but later the driver, Eric Samene, was arrested.

ACP Ampah-Benin remarked that people in the narcotic trade were using sophisticated methods to outwit the police “but our intelligence network is also firm to circumvent their activities”.

He said police intelligence had revealed that trucks used in conveying bags of sachet pure water were often used for conveying illicit drugs, such as cocaine.

Meanwhile, ACP Ampah-Benin said the police in a swoop on the metro bus station, the community around the Social Security and National Insurance Trust flats, the Medical Village and some other places in the Ho municipality, resulted in the arrest of 12 people for various suspected criminal activities.

He said the police retrieved from the suspects, quantities of dried leaves suspected to be ‘wee’, a motorbike, a locally manufactured pistol, four live cartridges, two cutlasses, three knives and a dagger. He said the police would organize regular swoops in Ho to rid the township of miscreants.

Source: The Ghanaian Times/Ghana