2 Charged For 'Wee'

By William Yaw Owusu

Friday, 08 September 2006
ROGER Ocloo, a courier service worker, and Ellis Tamakloe, a student, said to be the son of Mr Nyaho Tamakloe, Ghana’s Ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro, on Wednesday appeared before an Accra circuit court charged with conspiracy to export cannabis to the United Kingdom without lawful authority.

Mr. Alex Annor, a principal State Attorney told the court presided over by Mr. Justice Frank Manu, the Regional Tribunal Chairman that the case was being investigated and the suspected stuff had been sent to the Ghana Standards Boards for analysis.

The fact of the case are that on August 30, Ocloo took a parcel to the DHL office at Kanda in Accra to be sent to U.K where the operational manager discovered that the parcel contained some compressed dried leaves suspected to be cannabis.

He said the DHL subsequently reported the matter to the Narcotics Control Board and that led to the arrest of Ocloo.

Mr. Annor said a search in Ocloo’s room led to the discovery of a number of way bills including the one used for the unsuccessful export.

During interrogation, Ocloo allegedly mentioned Tamakloe as the one who gave the parcel to him.

Tamakloe upon his arrest also told the police that it was a man called Harry who gave the substance to him to post to the United Kingdom.

The prosecutor said the said Harry is now at large and was being pursued