Police burn 564 kg of seized Huhunya hemp after case collapses
Eastern Regional police burned 46 bags of Indian hemp weighing 564 kg that had been seized at Huhunya, after a Koforidua court ordered the exhibits destroyed; the last suspect's charges were dropped and a co-accused had died on remand.
🇬🇭 Krobo Nkwanta, near Koforidua, Eastern Region · Ghana
The Eastern Regional Police Command destroyed 46 bags of Indian hemp weighing about 564,000 grams that had been seized from Huhunya in the Yilo Krobo District.[1]The destruction at Krobo Nkwanta near Koforidua followed a directive from a Koforidua Circuit Court, and was witnessed by personnel of the Police Professional and Intelligence Bureau and court officials including the registrar.[1]
Police said 25 of the bags came from a 2008 swoop in which 23 suspects, including Kwaku Paddy and Philip Teye, were arrested; 21 were later exonerated and released, while Paddy and Teye were arraigned for cultivation and possession of narcotic drugs.[1]Paddy died while on remand, with a post-mortem finding tuberculosis as the cause, and the Attorney General later advised that the charges against Teye, the only suspect left, be dropped.[1]The other 21 bags had been seized in 2009 with no suspects arrested, and police said both consignments were burned to free the exhibit room.[1]
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The article gives no separate date for the destruction; 10 June 2010 is its publication date.
Only the Ghana News Agency wire could be opened, so no fully independent second outlet confirms the details.
The relation between the 2008 swoop with 23 suspects described here and the August 2008 Huhunya farm raid in a separate report is not established in the opened source.
No verifiable photograph of the destruction with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened source.
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