Cyber Crime is lucrative than drug business - NACOB

The Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board Yaw Akrasi-Sarpong has revealed that, he prefers the youth of the country to take advantage of the cyber crime business to the narcotics business since it is more lucrative and important and fetches quick money.

He maintained that those in the drug business are 'stupids' and do not deserve to be called as real business tycoons in the society, since in his view those in the 'sakawa' business are more intelligent and smart.

According to him, he sees no sense for an individual currier or drug trafficker to swallow huge sums of hard drugs and later suffer when a pellet busts into his stomach but would go for cyber crime business instead of the narcotics business.

Mr Akrasi-Sarpong made these bizzare and appalling comments during the 45th annual report launch of the International Narcotics Board (INCB) at the headquarters of the Narcotics Control Board in Accra Tuesday afternoon where opined that despite cyber crime is relatively not good, he would vouch for it and would entreat that the youth and the drug barons ventures into it.

He however expressed worry about the increasing rate of distribution and use of marijuana in Ghana, adding that the country is making international headlines for the use and production of marijuana and trafficking in the deadly methamphetamine substance.

The NACOB boss added that the situation has escalated to alarming proportions which, if not regulated immediately, could have serious consequences on the future of the youth in Ghana.

“… It is more dangerous than cocaine and heroine,’’

Mr Akrasi Sarpong said drugs such as cocaine and heroin were currently not as threatening to the country as marijuana.

“Marijuana continues to be the gravest challenge, prevalent usage, it cuts across all sectors society and every village in this country you have a pusher,’’ he added.

He further stated that the of Indian Hemp in the saloons by women is a recognition that every home uses the marijuana substance. ‘’It is grown 24/7 in homes, flower pots, roofs etc; Somehow, in the West African sub-region Ghana marijuana is a premium,’’ he noted.

He revealed that there is a thriving market for the Ghanaian marijuana.

‘’Our major problem is Indian Hemp,’’ he stressed.