Police destroy wee farm, hunt for owner

Sunyani, May 7, GNA - The police in the Brong Ahafo Region looking for Alex Kuffour Frimpong, a suspected drug baron, for cultivating a four-acre Indian hemp farm at Ahiamankyene, a village near Nsawkaw in the Tain District.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Kwaku Ayensu Opare-Addo, the Brong Ahafo Regional Police Commander, told the Ghana News Agency on phone on Monday that he led a team of 105 policemen to the farm and set it ablaze.

He said the suspect, alleged to be a producer of Batman, a popular Ghanaian hip life musician, is believed to be either hiding in Kumasi or in Accra.

Mr Opare-Addo appealed to the public to assist the police by providing information that could lead to the arrest of the drug baron. He said the police found on the farm a water hose, poly tanks, sprinkling machines, generator plants used to tap water from the Tain River and compressor machines used to process the hemp into packages for export.

The police found a book titled, "Marijuana growers' guide", authored by Mel Frank and which the suspect used as a guide in cultivating the wee.

There was also an underground vault in which packages of Indian hemp were concealed", he told the GNA.

Mr Opare-Addo said two of Frimpong's accomplices had been arrested and he gave their names as Iddrisu Umar, 25, and Samuel Annor Kwame 21, a watchman at the wee farm.