Suspected cocaine dealers in court

Accra Sept. 26, GNA - Three persons were on Friday put before an Accra Regional Tribunal charged with importation and possession of narcotics drugs without authority and abetment of crime.

They are Joseph N. W Abueze, Self-Employed, David K. Anim, Shipping Agent and MacDonald Chimanda Vasnani, Freight Forwarder.

The tribunal presided over by Mr Justice P. K Aggrey did not take their plea and remanded them into prison custody to reappear on October 29.

Mr K. Asiamah-Sampong, a State Attorney, told the court that following information to the Narcotics Control Board (NCB) by Her Majesty's Customs of The United Kingdom that a vessel that was carrying rice to Ghana had 42 kilograms of cocaine on board, the ship was monitored on the high seas until it docked at Tema Harbour on September 15. He said the NCB conducted a controlled delivery and seized the drug.