A joint operation by Ghana’s Narcotics Control Board and the police destroyed three acres of cannabis in Akatsi in October 2005 and took two Ghanaians and two Jamaicans into custody.[1] The same cable reports a police campaign against cannabis farms that drove a nearly 18-fold rise in seizures in 2005, the year with the most drug-trafficking arrests on record.[1] Cannabis, known locally as Indian hemp, is widely cultivated on rural farmland and usually harvested in September and October, when enforcement teams step up surveillance.[1]
Three acres of cannabis destroyed in Akatsi; four arrested
A joint Narcotics Control Board and police operation destroyed three acres of cannabis in Akatsi in October 2005 and took two Ghanaians and two Jamaicans into custody, in a year when seizures rose nearly 18-fold on a police farm-eradication campaign.
🇬🇭 Akatsi, Volta Region · Ghana
- Arrested
- 4
- Area
- 1.2 ha
- Cannabis
- Living plants
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Arrested
- 4
- Area
- 1.2 ha
- Agency type
- Police, Anti-narcotics agency
- Cannabis
- Living plants
- Activity
- Cultivation
- Setting
- Field
- Grown
- Outdoor
- Case stage
- Under investigation
- Date
- Approximate
Sources
- US Embassy in Accra (via Wikileaks)wikileaks.jcvignoli.com2005-2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control - Ghana
Open questions the AI reported
- The account rests on a single opened source, the US embassy's narcotics strategy cable.
- The cable gives no day in October 2005 and no names or court outcomes for the four people taken into custody.
- No photograph of the operation with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
