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By Ebenezer Sowah, GNA    

Ho, Aug. 30, GNA – Stephen Ayomide, 27, a
Computer Engineer has been arraigned before a Ho Circuit Court for possessing
dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.

The court presided over by Madam Priscilla
Dikro Ofori read the charges to the accused but he was not allowed to make a
plea since the suspected dried leaves were yet to be tested by the Forensic
Department of the Ghana Police Service.

Sergeant Patricia Kuale, prosecuting, said
the suspect was arrested on August 19, 2019 at 1630 hours at the Aflao- Beat
nine pedestrian border by officers of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) on
their normal duty profiling passersby.

She said the suspect was from Aflao heading
towards Togo with a black bag and inside the bag were eight loaf-like wraps of
the dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.

Sergeant Kuale said Ayomide who is a
Nigerian admitted the offense of carrying the bag but denied knowledge of its
content and mentioned one Yussif as the one who gave him the parcel to be
delivered to a friend in the Republic of Togo.

The prosecution said Ayomide was handed over
to the Aflao Police and later to the Ho Regional Police Command on August 22,
2019.

The suspect has since been granted bail in
the sum of GH¢20,000.00 with two sureties who are to be Ghanaians.

The case has been adjourned to September,
11, 2019 for further interrogations.

GNA


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