The Eastern Regional Police Command intercepted 78 bags of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.[1] The bags had first been found by Ehiamankyene police in the Fanteakwa District, hidden in a bush along the roadside at Bepoase after a tip-off from the public.[1]
When the station officer reached the scene he found the bags but no one with them, so he hired a vehicle and labourers to carry the hemp to the station while he went to inform the district officer at Begoro.[1] The district officer, who had received the same information, arrived at the scene with his men to find the hired vehicle being loaded as directed, and the driver and labourers fled into the bush.[1]
The regional crime officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police Augustine Luguyara, denied media reports that the two officers had pulled guns on each other or that money had changed hands with the owners, saying no one had been arrested or claimed the hemp and that investigations were continuing.[1] He said any officer found to have compromised the operation would face the service’s professional and disciplinary procedures.[1]
