2 Drug pushers jailed

By William Yaw Owusu.

Tuesday, 11 April 2006
THE Greater Accra Regional Tribunal has sentenced two persons to various prison terms for attempting to export cocaine to Europe.They are Camile Mohammed, driver, who was jailed 16 years, and John Sarfo, a labourer, who is to serve 10 years in prison.

Mohammed was said to have swallowed 50 pellets weighing about 8,659 grammes of the substance, while Sarfo swallowed 80 pellets.

They were separately charged with two counts of possessing narcotic drug without lawful authority and attempting to export narcotic drug without a licence.

Mr Frederick Boamah of the Attorney-General’s Department, prosecuting told the tribunal that Mohammed, who was resident in Spain, arrived at the Accra Airport at about 9 pm to catch a KLM flight to Amsterdam, Holland.

As he went through formalities, officials of the Narcotic Control Board, acting on suspicion, invited him for interrogation.

He was then taken to the 37 Military Hospital where examination revealed that he had swallowed 50 pellets of cocaine.

According to prosecution, Mohammed claimed that the substance was given to him by Obi to be delivered to one Emmanuel Mensah, in Europe.

In the other case, Ms Barbara Sackey, also of the Attorney-General’s Department, told the tribunal that Sarfo was scheduled to travel on a KLM flight to Spain via Amsterdam.

When he was picked for interrogation, he started behaving strangely and was therefore taken to the 37 Military Hospital where an X-ray examination revealed that he had swallowed 80 pellets of cocaine.”