Tarkwa court fines 20-year-old GH¢120,000 over 139.6 g of cannabis
A Tarkwa Circuit Court fined 20-year-old labourer Kojo Sah Nkrumah GH¢120,000 after he pleaded guilty to possessing and selling cannabis and tramadol, with three years in prison if he does not pay. Police found 81 wrapped pieces of cannabis weighing 139.61 g, seven tramadol sachets and GH¢240 in cash when they arrested him at Tarkwa Railway Station in January 2025.
🇬🇭 Tarkwa Railway Station, Tarkwa, Western Region · Ghana
Tarkwa Circuit Court fined Kojo Sah Nkrumah GH¢120,000 over cannabis and tramadol offences, with three years in prison in default.[1][2][3][4]
The Tarkwa Circuit Court fined 20-year-old labourer Kojo Sah Nkrumah GH¢120,000
after he pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing and selling narcotic drugs
without lawful authority.[1][2]The court, presided over by Ms Bernice Mensimah
Ackon, convicted and sentenced him on his own plea and ordered three years in
prison if he fails to pay.[1][2]The Ghana News Agency reported the sentence in a
dispatch datelined Tarkwa on 26 October 2026; the accounts do not give the day the
court imposed it.[1]
Police arrested Nkrumah at about 01:30 on 21 January 2025 at Tarkwa Railway
Station, during a routine night patrol led by Chief Inspector Issahaque Yahaya.[1][2]They found him seated under a shed selling substances suspected to be
narcotic drugs.[1][2]A search of a takeaway bag uncovered 81 pieces of wrapped
dried leaves suspected to be cannabis, seven sachets of tramadol and GH¢240 in
cash that police believed were proceeds of the sales.[1][2]
The exhibits went to the Forensic Crime Laboratory in Accra on 25 April 2025, and
a report received on 13 May found delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the plant
material, with a gross weight of 139.61 g.[1][2]Assistant Superintendent of
Police Samuel Ahiabor prosecuted for officers of the Western Central Regional
Formed Police Unit based in Tarkwa.[1][2]
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