Cocaine dealer admits guilt in court

Accra, April 30, GNA - The music producer who was busted after expelling 96 pellets of substances suspected to be cocaine on Friday, said there was no need for the court to remand him because he was guilty. Sam Sarfo Kantanka made the confession at the Accra Fast Track High Court, which remanded him to re-appear on Thursday, May 27, pending the outcome of the Ghana Standards Board (GSB) examination into the substance. The court contended that the proper thing should be done by way of establishing what the substances are.

It therefore tasked the prosecution to expedite action on the test to be conducted.

Mr Asiamah Sampong, a Senior State Attorney, prayed the court for sometime to enable them obtain results of the GSB results.

The weight of the 96 pellets of the substance is yet to be determined. The complainants were operatives of the Narcotics Control Board at Kotoka International Airport (KIA) and the accused is a music producer resident at Sowutuom in Accra.

On April 27, Kantanka was accosted at KIA and while going through departure formalities, to board a British Airways Airline, he was picked up on suspicion that he had ingested narcotic drugs.

Operatives of Narcotics Control Board took Kantanka's urine sample and tested it, which proved positive of cocaine.

On interrogation, he admitted swallowing the substances, which were given to him by one Stone at Ashongman Estate in Accra to be given to one "Obroni" in London for a fee of 4,000 pounds sterling.