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Tribunal destroys cocaine hidden in
Nkulenu Palm Soup cans
Accra, June 10, Ghanadot/GNA - The Greater Accra Regional
Tribunal on Tuesday destroyed 41 kilograms of cocaine put
into 60 cans of Nkulenu Palm Soup.
The drug was seized at Aviance Cargo Section of the Kotoka
International Airport (KIA) on September 22, last year.
The 60 cans of the Nkulenu Palm
Soup were intercepted at Aviance Cargo Section, KIA when
they were brought with tubers of yams to be exported to the
United Kingdom.
Through the vigilance of security personnel during a routine
check, the cocaine was intercepted.
Two persons who were connected to the said drugs, Nana Yaa
Asantewa and Joseph Aseidu, both exporters, are being held
for conspiracy and attempted exportation.
They have pleaded not guilty. Osei Kweku an accomplice is at
large.
Asantewaa is facing an additional charge for possessing
narcotic drug without lawful authority.
They will reappear on June 26.
The order for the destruction came after the prosecutor Mr.
Augsutines Obuor, a State Attorney, had tendered them in
evidence.
The destruction, supervised by officials of the Narcotics
Control Board and court officials took place at the premises
of the tribunal.
This is the second largest consignment destroyed by the
tribunal. Last week the tribunal destroyed 59 kilograms of
cocaine seized at the Duty Free Shop of KIA after they had
been tendered in evidence.
At about 2130 hours on September 22, last year, personnel of
NACOB on duty at Aviance Cargo Section, KIA, on their
routine checks intercepted tubers of yam in boxes on a
pallet ready to be exported to the United Kingdom (UK).
The prosecution said when the boxes were opened they also
contained 60 cans of Nkulenu Palm soup.
One of the cans which was opened in the presence of the
forwarding agent Prosper Ahiaba, contained some powdery
substances suspected to be cocaine.
A field test of the substance proved to be cocaine.
Ahiaba mentioned Nana Yaw as the owner of the tubers of yam
and the palm soup and she was arrested.
Nana Yaw during interrogation stated that she has been
exporting goods for Joseph Boakye Aseidu, aka Joe, and Osei
Kweku, Directors of PIKAN Export at Adabraka in Accra.
Nana further stated that she was sending the tubers of yam
and Nkulenu Palm Soup base in the name of one Akua Brago
based in UK.
GNA
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