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Vice-President Mahama asks police to suspend cocaine investigations
Posted on: Fri 16 Dec, 2011.
Vice President John Mahama has directed the
police service to suspend its investigations into the
cocaine-turned-baking powder saga. Read more...
Gambia puts 12 on trial for drugs trafficking
Posted on: Thu 10 Jun, 2010.
Twelve foreigners arrested in The Gambia last month, and whose capture aided a major drugs bust, have appeared in court. Read more...
Two tonnes of cocaine seized in The Gambia
Posted on: Wed 09 Jun, 2010.
At least two tonnes of cocaine with a street value estimated at $1bn has been seized in The Gambia, bound for Europe. Read more...
TANZANIA: Tackling drug abuse in the islands
Posted on: Mon 12 Apr, 2010.
From the outside, there is little that sets the three-bedroom house apart from its neighbours in this suburb of Stone Town. But inside, the building offers a rare lifeline to two dozen young men from across Zanzibar trying to kick their drug habits. Read more...
Drug money 'tainting Ghana poll'
Posted on: Wed 29 Oct, 2008.
Ghana's election campaign could be tarnished by money from West African drug trafficking, an official has said. Read more...
Cocaine: Man, 34, Under Guard At Hospital
Posted on: Thu 21 Aug, 2008.
 A 24-hour police guard has been placed on a 34-year-old man at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, where 73 thumb-size pellets of a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine were removed from his stomach. Read more...
Non-Partisan Debate Of Drug Problem A Necessity -Quantson
Posted on: Fri 04 Jul, 2008.
 A Former Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Mr Kofi Bentum Quantson, has called for a national non-partisan platform to exhaustively debate the drug problem in the country, from law enforcement, through prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and reintegration. Read more...
Missing cocaine saga: committee discovers conspiracy
Posted on: Tue 20 May, 2008.
The Kojo Armah Committee which investigated the theft of cocaine from the Exhibits Room at the CID Headquarters has revealed that there had been a conspiracy to incriminate some persons with the theft. Read more...
Ghanaian Drug Baron Arrested In Brazil
Posted on: Mon 19 May, 2008.
Raymond Kwame Amankwah, a Ghanaian described as one of the most wanted drug barons, has been arrested in Brazil through a collaboration between the German Federal Police and its Brazilian counterpart. Read more...
Corruption, Lack Of Resources Hamper Fight Against Drugs
Posted on: Fri 09 May, 2008.
 US State Department says corruption and lack of resources are seriously impeding Ghana’s efforts to deal with the drug menace. Read more...
AFGHANISTAN: New report urges stronger action to stop drugs trade
Posted on: Fri 09 May, 2008.
KABUL, 5 March 2008 (IRIN) - The government of Afghanistan and neighbouring states must join forces to stop the smuggling of precursor chemicals, particularly acetic anhydride, to Afghanistan where they are used in the illicit manufacture of heroin and morphine, the International Narcotics Control Broad (INCB) said in its annual report on 5 March.
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West Africa Described As Cocaine Centre
Posted on: Fri 09 May, 2008.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has described West Africa as a cocaine stockpiling centre and attributed the problem to widespread corruption and poor law enforcement structures. Read more...
Cocaine: Gang nabbed in Accra
Posted on: Fri 09 May, 2008.
 The arrest of a 31-year-old Nigerian businessman based in Italy, Mathew Eneeboifo by the Narcotic Control Board at the Kotoka International Airport on October 27 for possessing ten pallets of cocaine weighing 200 grams, has led to the arrest of his Ghanaian accomplice. Read more...
Court decides East Legon cocaine case on November 13
Posted on: Fri 09 May, 2008.
An Accra Fast Track High Court has deferred judgement in respect of the case of the two Venezuelans allegedly connected to the 588 kilogrammes of cocaine seized at a house at Mepeasem, East Legon in Accra to November 13.
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$3m cocaine in cans - two arrested
Posted on: Fri 09 May, 2008.
 A large quantity of cocaine concealed in 60 cans of palmnut cream concentrate and meant for export to the United Kingdom has been intercepted by security operatives at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra. Read more...
MV Benjamin cocaine destroyed
Posted on: Fri 09 May, 2008.
The cocaine found on board MV Benjamin was on Wednesday destroyed soon after it was tendered in evidence. Read more...
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