NACOC destroys 46,128 kg of cannabis at Bundase camp
Ghana's Narcotics Control Commission burned 46,128.29 kg of cannabis at the Bundase military camp on 8 November 2024, part of 151,899.54 kg of drugs seized between 2021 and 2024 and destroyed under multi-agency supervision.
🇬🇭 Bundase Military Camp, Ningo-Prampram District, Greater Accra Region · Ghana
Ghana’s Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) destroyed 151,899.54 kg of illicit drugs
at the Bundase Military Camp in the Ningo-Prampram District on Friday 8 November
2024.[1][2]The stocks, seized from suspects between 2021 and 2024, included
46,128.29 kg of cannabis alongside codeine, heroin, cocaine, speedball, meth and
MDMA.[1][2]
The supervised burning involved the Environmental Protection Agency, the police, the
military, national security officers and the Ghana Standards Authority.[2]NACOC
Director-General Kenneth Adu-Amanfoh said destroying the drugs was an essential step
to protect citizens and showed the commission’s commitment to the rule of law.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The two outlets disagree on the non-cannabis breakdown (heroin 37 kg against "37,725 Kg", cocaine 9 kg against "9,675 Kg"); this report uses the cannabis figure both agree on.
The destroyed cannabis mixes seizures from 2021 to 2024, not separated by year or operation here.
No account of the trials of the suspects the drugs were seized from appears in these reports.
The Ghanaian Times photo of the drugs set on fire could not have its direct image address recovered, so it is not listed as media.
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