Tema cocaine - 2 more assist police

Front Page: Daily Graphic, May 22, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THE director and the deputy director of the company which cleared the 71.45 kilogrammes of a substance suspected to be cocaine at the Tema Port last Tuesday have reported themselves to the police to assist in investigations into the importation of the substance.
Alfred Amedzi and Yaw Atta Nkansah, the Director and the Deputy Director, respectively, of Seko Clearing Agency, reported themselves to the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) in Accra yesterday accompanied by their lawyers.
The Deputy Executive Secretary of NACOB, Mr Mark Ewuntogmah, told the Daily Graphic that six persons, including the consignee of the container, were assisting in investigations into the case in which a 40-foot container with 61 parcels of the substance was intercepted at the Tema Port.
The parcels were said to have been concealed in a cargo which had been declared as chewing gum from Ecuador in South America.
The container, consigned to Augustina Abu of Abu Augustina Enterprise, was intercepted after it had gone through the scan at the port.
The consignee reported herself to the police later on Wednesday, while three suspects, including two clearing agents and a driver, were arrested earlier by personnel of the Joint Port Control Unit to assist in the investigations.
The suspects were identified as Kennedy Osei, Simon Fafa Bedy, both of Seko Clearing Agency in Tema, and Francis Abbey, the driver of the truck which was to cart the container from the port.
All the suspects are to be arraigned today.