Taxi Driver Suspected of Smuggling Weed To Nigeria From Ghana Has Been Arrested

Culled from Graphic Ghana....

A taxi driver has was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle six slabs of compressed dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp to Nigeria by the Kaneshie Police.

The suspect, Fatau Nurudeen, 32, packed the slabs into three boxes of powdered soap with the brand name “Strong”.

He tried to smuggle them as parcels to one Alhaji in Nigeria through commercial public
transport operating at the Lagos Station at the Neoplan Station in Accra.

The Kaneshie District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent of Police, Mr Fleance Senam Adika, narrating the circumstances that led to the suspect’s arrest, said about 1:30 p.m. on February 15, 2014, Nurudeen presented two of the boxes to the station manager for delivery to the said Alhaji.

At the station, he said the unsuspecting transport operator charged GH¢10 for each box and loaded it onto a Nigeria-bound vehicle.

According to Mr Adika, the suspect, on another occasion, presented two consignments for onward delivery to the said Alhaji.

The driver of the vehicle with the boxes on board, according to the Kaneshie Police Commander, was arrested at the Seme Border on the Ghana-Nigeria transit point after a search resulted in the interception of the boxes with the suspected Indian hemp.

Mr Adika said the police mounted a search for Nurudeen after the driver of the vehicle had informed the police about the source of the boxes.

Unknown to Nurudeen that he was wanted by the police, he returned to the station about 5:30 p.m. on February 20, 2014, with two more boxes and inquired why the two boxes he had presented earlier had not been delivered.

He said he was immediately arrested and handed over to the Kaneshie Police where he allegedly admitted delivering the boxes at the station to one Alhaji in Nigeria but denied knowing the content of the boxes.