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Court orders destruction of cocaine
after sentencing Nigerian dealer to 11 years imprisonment
Accra, July 31, Ghanadot/GNA - An Accra Regional Tribunal on
Tuesday ordered the destruction of 297.2489 grammes of
cocaine, a narcotic drug, after it had convicted and
sentenced its Nigerian owner to 11 years' imprisonment for
attempting to export it to Spain.
At the tribunal's sitting on Tuesday, Frank Aquianne
Chukwudi changed his plea from not guilty to guilty and was
convicted and sentenced accordingly.
When Chukwudi first appeared before the tribunal on May 9,
2006, he pleaded not guilty to two counts of attempted
exportation and possession of narcotic drugs.
But on his ninth appearance on Tuesday, Chukwudi changed his
plea to guilty.
On the convict's first appearance, the prosecution told the
tribunal that in the evening of October 26, 2005, Chukwudi
arrived at the Kotoka International Airport to board a KLM
flight to Amsterdam in transit to Spain.
The prosecution said while convict was going through
departure formalities, he was picked up by officials of the
Narcotic Control Board on duty at the Airport on suspicion
of carrying narcotic drugs.
According to the prosecution, Chukwudi was escorted to the
37 Military Hospital where he refused to undergo an x-ray
examination.
The prosecution said the convict later confessed having
inserted three thumb-sized pellets of cocaine in his anus
and swallowed 32 others.
According to the prosecution, Chukwudi after expelling all
35 pellets under the supervision of personnel from the
Narcotic Control Board told them that he was carrying the
stuff for one Joseph Eze, a Nigerian in Accra, to be
delivered to one Kaitama in Spain for a fee of 3,000
dollars.
GNA
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