Kofi Appianin Ennin, a 46-year-old businessman, allegedly shipped 6,240 kilograms of cannabis to Britain in two 40-foot containers loaded with yams and gari between January and February 2015, a haul with a street value of $20 million.[1] He was arrested on 2 June 2015 through a collaboration between British security agencies and Ghana’s Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), after the drug had already left Ghana’s shores, and held by the Bureau of National Investigations.[1]
On 19 June 2015 the Accra Fast Track High Court, presided over by Justice Abdullai Iddrissu, remanded him on four counts of exporting narcotics without licence and possessing narcotic drugs without lawful authority; his plea was not taken and he was to reappear on 29 June.[1] His lawyer told the court Ennin is diabetic and needed regular medication in custody, and the court ordered the prosecution to ensure him access to it.[1]
Ghana’s Supreme Court later recorded that Ennin was investigated for trafficking in narcotic drugs and held on remand at Nsawam Medium Security Prison while related accounts were frozen in June 2015.[2]
