Trader charged with attempted export of cannabis

Accra, July 17, GNA - A trader who allegedly attempted to export to the UK three large parcels of compressed cannabis in a drum and 12 small parcels of the same stuff in two leather chess boards was on Thursday put before an Accra Circuit Court. Emmanuel Adom charged with attempted exportation and possessing narcotic drugs without lawful authority pleaded not guilty. The court further turned down a bail application put in by his lawyer and remanded him into prison custody to reappear on July 29. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr Kofi Blagodzi said on July 9, this year, personnel of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) on duty at Aviance Cargo Village on routine check inspected a card box ready to be exported by Joseph Mawuli to the United Kingdom. ASP. Blagodzi said when the items were scanned they were found to contain some foreign materials.

Accra, July 17, GNA - A trader who allegedly attempted to export to the UK three large parcels of compressed cannabis in a drum and 12 small parcels of the same stuff in two leather chess boards was on Thursday put before an Accra Circuit Court. Emmanuel Adom charged with attempted exportation and possessing narcotic drugs without lawful authority pleaded not guilty. The court further turned down a bail application put in by his lawyer and remanded him into prison custody to reappear on July 29. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr Kofi Blagodzi said on July 9, this year, personnel of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) on duty at Aviance Cargo Village on routine check inspected a card box ready to be exported by Joseph Mawuli to the United Kingdom. ASP. Blagodzi said when the items were scanned they were found to contain some foreign materials. According to the prosecutor, when the drum and the two leather chess boards were cut, three big parcels and 12 small compressed parcels of dried leaves suspected to be cannabis, a narcotic drug, were found. The prosecution said Mawuli was therefore arrested up by NACOB officials and during interrogation he mentioned Adom, aka Bongo, as the one who gave him the parcels to export. On July 11, this year, Adom was arrested at his hideout at Teshie in Accra and he admitted that he received the two leather chess boards from one Jah Bless for export and asked his bother Mawuli to export same on his behalf.