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Police destroys
cannabis farms at Huhunya
Huhunya, Aug. 6, Ghanadot/GNA -
The Eastern Regional Police Command on Tuesday destroyed
several acres of wee (cannabis)
plantation at Huhunya in the Yilo-Krobo district.
The plantation mixed with tomatoes and other crops was
located on the mountains surrounding the Boti and Akaa water
falls.
Led by Police Chief Superintendent Enyonam Apate, Eastern
Regional Crime Officer and Superintendent John Naami,
Koforidua District Police Commander, police personnel set
fire to the plantations and heaps of prepared wee ready for
sale.
Two suspects, Padi Kwaku and Emmanuel Keteku, who were
arrested in a cave on the mountain when the police on a
tip-off searched the area, admitted during the interrogation
that they were owners of the farms.
The suspects who confessed that they started the wee farms
about two years ago indicated that they had been farming and
living in the caves for the past 18 years but entered the
wee farming only to defray some debts they incurred due to
ill-health.
According to the suspects they had customers from Accra and
other areas and mentioned specifically Avenor, a suburb of
Accra where they normally came from to buy their products.
When asked how they were able to meet the buyers considering
the long and winding way to the mountains, Keteku responded
that they had a particular whistle sound, “which alerts us
to come down and meet them for business”.
Superintendent Naami who briefed the press later said
efforts of the police to clamp down on criminals in the area
necessitated the swoop on the wee peddlers, who were
believed to be linked to the high rate of crime in the
region.
He said within a period of two months the police were able
to destroy more than 10 acres of wee plantations in the
region.
Chief Superintendent Apate said the bags of wee and seedling
samples collected would be sent to the laboratories for test
while investigations continued to prosecute the two
suspects.
GNA
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