Cocaine Turned Soda saga: Police Rejects CJ, BNI Reports

…says they are baseless

… pledges GH¢50,000 reward for credible information

The Ghana Police Service has out rightly rejected the two reports submitted on the
cocaine-turned-baking soda saga which placed the blame of the swapping at the door
step of the police.
The Service has therefore pledged a reward of GH¢50,000 (US$29,515. 94) to anyone
who would give credible information leading to unraveling the mystery surrounding
the cocaine swap.
According to the Police Service, “we stand by our conviction that the exhibit was
not swapped in police custody. ”
At a press conference on Thursday to state the official position of the Ghana Police
Service on the two reports, DCOP Prosper Kwame Ablor, indicated that most of the
recommendations conveyed in the final report submitted by the Chief Justice and the
interim one from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) are baseless.
He questioned the reports submitted by the two institutions and said they were
inconsistent because they could not come out with “where the swapping was done, how
the swapping was done, when it was done and by whom.”

He also insisted that when the cocaine, which was identified as Exhibit C was
tendered as evidence, the seal on it was intact and had not been tampered with.
He stated that the point made in the Justice Agnes Dodzie-led committee’s report
stating the exhibit did not have a “pungent smell” is not “scientific”.
He further stated that the pungent smell which is now being used as a basis was
never mentioned by the defense lawyers when the exhibit was first tendered as
evidence.

He indicated that the defense counsels’ comments of a “tsunami tremor” cannot be
used as a basis to believe that the [defense lawyer] was right.
The Chief Justice report exonerated court officials from any wrong doing in the
swapped cocaine case whiles the BNI implicated two CID officials – DSP Gifty
Mawuenyega and DSP Kofi Tuadzra – in their interim report.