Officers of the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) intercepted a 20-foot cargo truck fully laden with a substance suspected to be marijuana at Atimpoku, in the Eastern Region, over the weekend.[1][2] The substance, extremely compressed to the form of notebooks, was packed in more than 100 maize bags that were stacked in the truck and barricaded with maize to outwit the security agencies.[1] The packaging showed the consignment was meant for export.[1]
Two mates held
The driver absconded when CEPS personnel seized the vehicle, and two men who described themselves as the driver’s mates were held for investigations.[1][2] The truck, registration number GR 7231 Z and inscribed as belonging to one A.K. Asare of Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region, was detained with the substance at CEPS headquarters in Accra.[1] Briefing journalists in Accra, Deputy Commissioner of CEPS in charge of Preventive Africanus Owusu-Ansah said the service was on a collision course with people denting the image of the country, and appealed to the government to resource CEPS and the other security agencies.[1][2]
