Cocaine was stuffed inside plantains, a sour, banana-like fruit, on a flight from Ghana (Photo: UK Border Force/PA)
Geez…Some of our people….
Smugglers stuffed cocaine worth £750,000 into hollowed out plantains in a consignment of fruit and vegetables, the UK Border Force said today.
A 7.5kg haul of the class A drug was seized at Heathrow on Tuesday on a flight from Ghana.
The banana-like fruits had been hollowed out, filled with packages of cocaine and resealed.
Border staff believe the same smuggling gang were behind a 1.5-tonne consignment of cannabis discovered the previous day, also on a flight of fruit and vegetables from Ghana.
That haul had a street value of around £4.3 million.
Marc Owen, Heathrow director for Border Force, said: “It seems likely that the same criminal gangs were involved in both of these two smuggling attempts. This means that in just two days we have put a £5 million dent in their profits.
“These two seizures demonstrate the success we’re having in disrupting criminal smugglers and keeping illegal drugs off the streets of the UK.”
The cannabis seizure was the biggest at Heathrow Airport in more than three years.
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now I ask myself how did that cross the boarder of Ghana to get this far. some ppl needs to be fired
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jessi Reply:
September 28th, 2012 at 19:26
@cristalblack, a top politician is behind it,i heard this morning at peace fm,but i thaught it was weed and not cacaine.
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September 28th, 2012 at 19:31
@cristalblack, some people need to be fired for real! But who will do the firing?
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some questions need to be asked and some answers need to be given straight from KOTOKA
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Ghana my beloved country, look at what some people have turned you into. Lord have mercy on all those out there responsible for this kind of act.
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hmmm i smell nigerians………….jut disgracing our country dats why u hardly hear their name these days to do with drugs and 419 not knowing they now operate from Great Ghana and SA…..seriously its time we deport them they are everywhere in accra doin all these crap
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Shina Reply:
September 29th, 2012 at 06:50
Why you call Nigeria for this matter now…. So you want to tell me Ghanians don’t do drugs
please mind your language bro
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How can this people be that careless??? Now koraa if u swallow the cocain u can get arrested… how come in u stuff inside a palntain n banana………….. hmmm in ghana with such food stuffs it p**** by easily…. they dont control them…
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oh my God,who are the evil doers disgracing Ghana like this? seriously,some people at Kotoka need to go home cos they’re indeed not helping Ghana at all.Somehow,someboby in kotoka knows about this issue.
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I’m sure it’s not only Ghanaians its a gang mixed up with Nigerians, Jamaicans linked to one of the notorious gang in Manchester that’s what I read in the news paper whoever authorised this should be surely fired an the people around it
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May God punish you people calling Nigerians.
Even if it were Nigerians,do you think they will collaborate with daft ghanians.?
You guys are not smart enough for that kinda stuff.
Cowards,that can’t even wipe their own ****es.
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September 30th, 2012 at 04:08
@Solomon, God Bless you…
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October 1st, 2012 at 12:44
@Solomon, thats the problem we have as Ghanaians,if we dont politicise something,then we foreignise it,we never accept our mistakes and thats why we take 1 step forward and 3 steps backwards but not all of us are daft ha?
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SO WHAT’S THE NDC GOING TO SAY ABOUT THIS NOW…..WHEN THEY WERE CALLING THE NPP, NARCOTIC PEDDLERS PARTY COS OF THE ACTS OF A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL…….THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN EVERYTHING IS POLITICIZED.
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