The Director of Enforcement at the Narcotics Control Commission, Mr Solomon Stanley Eyo, has revealed how a unnamed man was arrested at the Kotoka Airport With bags of cocaine. Mr Eyo was touching on how Ghana is infested with drug lords and barons and how they are collapsing the good image of the country. READ … Read more
Officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) have grabbed a Zimbabwean woman at the Kotoka International Airport for attempting to smuggle as much as 7kg of cocaine into the country.
The lady, identified as Cynthia Lichonja, was carrying the illicit drugs in a false compartment of her suitcase.
Two properties owned by the jailed drug baroness, Nayele Ametefe, have been seized by the state following a ruling from an Accra Economic and Financial Crimes court.
The properties are a couple of storey buildings, one located at East Legon and the other at Dzorwulu, both in Accra.
The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) have legally taken control of half of all money seized from the frozen bank accounts of drug baroness, Nayele Ametefe.
In a breakdown of the seized funds authorised by the judiciary, the court hearing the case gets 30% of the seized funds, with the remaining 20% being put into the Consolidated Fund.
Seized assets of the jailed drug baron, Nayele Ametefe, has been donated by officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), to various rehab centres in the country.
The items, including expensive furniture worth thousands of cedis, were donated to three rehab centres by the narcotics combating agency
The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has been on a roll recently, with three arrests in quick succession featuring travellers determined to smuggle contraband in and out of the country.
According to a statement from the body, three people, a Ghanaian, Liberian and a Nigerian, have all been arrested in recent days attempting to smuggle, in various forms, hard drugs through the Kotoka International Airport.
Decriminalisation – the common sense solution to the problem of drugs that has been proposed by everyone from Kofi Annan to Blakk Rasta, but which stubborn and hypocritical legislators refuse to act on.
Both marijuana and alcohol are substances that alter the body’s brain chemistry – ergo, drugs. Yet we jail people for merely possessing one and do nothing about the other.
