Police
smoke drug peddlers out of Osu Presbyterian
Secondary School Compound
Accra, Nov. 22, GNA - The Police at Osu on Monday
rounded up 29 persons suspected be drug peddlers
operating at the Osu Presbyterian Secondary School
during a swoop.
The suspects who were between 19 years to 35 years
old were found to have been invading the school
premises to smoke and sell Indian hemp.
Speaking to the GNA, Assistant Superintendent of
Police (ASP) James Annor, Osu District Police
Commander, said following complainants by the
School’s Authorities and some concerned citizens the
Police mounted the operation at about 0530 hours on
Monday.
He said the swoop, which was the second in three
months in which 23 of such people were arrested and
prosecuted, would continue adding, "the Police would
continue to mount more exercises in obscured and
public places for peace loving people to enjoy the
Christmas”.
The Osu Presbyterian Secondary shared the same
premises with its Junior Secondary School, which has
a boarding school facility and was walled and fenced
with electric mesh to ward off intruders and yet
some users of those facilities such as netball,
volleyball pitch as well as the school campus for
training engaged in immoral activities.
ASP Annor said the activities of the suspects were
making life uncomfortable and dangerous to the
students and School’s Authorities.
He appealed to people living in the community, who
might want to use the school field for any sporting
activity to consult the School’s Authorities so that
they could distinguish between unscrupulous persons,
who used the school park as smoking place.
"It is not the intention of the Police to disallow
the members of the community from using the school
field for any sporting activity but we would use
force to ward off persons, who disguise themselves
as sportsmen," ASP Annor warned.
He cautioned persons who visit beaches among others
places to sell drugs and smoke to stay away from
those areas as the Police would smoke them out.
The District Commander said the 29 suspects would be
charged and put before court.
When Madam Denis Duah Oye Welbeck, Head Mistress of
the was contacted, she said she had complained to
the Police and opinion leaders in the Osu Community
over the years but the suspects continued to misuse
the premises.
She said there had been instances where the
intruders had smashed her car.
"Although we have day and night watchmen, they are
unable to control those who entered the school
premises” she said.
GNA
