Two jailed 20 years for dealing in indian hemp

Two persons who used an uncompleted school building as their base for selling Indian hemp were on Tuesday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment each by an Accra Circuit Court.

Osmanu Amadu and Sulemana Ayuba, both truck pushers, pleaded not guilty to the charge but the court presided over by Mr Francis Obiri found them guilty and convicted them accordingly.

Prosecution said on November 30, 2011, at about 1100 hours, the Police at James Town in Accra upon a tip off embarked on an operation at Ayalolo cluster of Schools to track down drug peddlers.

The team of policemen raided the schools’ story building and found Amadu, 29, in one of the rooms of the first floor with quantity of Indian hemp wrapped in cement papers and pair of scissors, two boxes of safety matches, a lighter and GHc 11 cedis were retrieved from him.

In the case of Ayuba, quantities of Indian hemp concealed in a black polythene bag and cash of GH 2. 25 pesewas were found on him.

Ayuba and Amadu together with the exhibits were apprehended and escorted to the Police station while the drugs were sent to the Ghana Police Forensic Laboratory.

The drugs tested positive for Indian hemp.

Prosecution said on January 2, last year, a duplicate docket was forwarded to the Attorney General’s Department for advice.

On May 28 this year, the Attorney General’s office instructed the prosecution of the accused persons.