Three drug peddlers aged between 18 and 30 years, have been arrested by a team from the Pharmacy Council Inspectorate and the Ghana Police Service, during a swoop conducted at market centres and lorry stations in Awutu-Senya East, Agona Swedru and Upper Denkyira.
“We managed to apprehend the three men whose names have been withheld for security reasons, during operations, and they are in police custody in Cape Coast, assisting the police in their investigations but others escaped. ‘
Mr. Appiah Kwesi Baffour, Central Regional Manager of the Pharmacy Council, and leader of the team, made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Kasoa.
Mr Baffour said one of them was arrested in Kasoa and the others at Dunkwa-On-Offin.
He stated that the items found on them which included Amoxycillin Capsules, Flagyl Tables, Paracetamol tables, Efpac Tables and Multivitamins, were confiscated and handed over to the police.
Mr. Baffour lamented further that the activities of drug peddlers were on the ascendancy.
He said in the communities in which the operations were executed they educated the populace on the safe use of drugs and also counseled them to purchase drugs from authorized sources only.
He appealed to the general public to report people who indulged in criminal activities to the police or the Pharmacy Council, and gave the assurance that the identities of such informants would be religiously protected.
He stated that the Council would continue to intensify enforcement at those areas in order to eradicate drug peddlers.
The police said after their investigations they would arraign them before court.
