Man arrested with 82 grams of cocaine

The Suspect Kofi Asamoah

Police in the Ashanti Region have seized 82 grams of a substance suspected to be cocaine in what is believed to be the biggest drug haul in the region in recent times.

The police also arrested a 54-year-old Kofi Asamoah in his house at Atonsu where the substance was retrieved upon an intensive search.

His 19 year-old nephew, Richmond Adjei Amoako, a level 100 student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), was also arrested in connection with the case.

Police sources describe the cocaine seizure as the biggest in a single swoop outside the country’s ports.
Kofi Asamoah who is alleged to be on the police radar for a period now has been described by persons who know him as a successful businessman who owns a chain of businesses, including a hotel.

Interestingly, before his arrest, the police were on the heels of another suspected drug dealer who had managed to scale a wall to escape.

Police personnel in plain clothes had feigned interest in buying cocaine from the young man who is now at large. But upon realizing the supposed clients were rather security agents he bolted with 180 Ghana cedis the police had given him for the drugs.

But the police in hunting for him entered Kofi Asamoah’s house where he was suspected to be hiding. They met Richmond who denied seeing the suspect around but when the police threatened to arrest him, Asamoah emerged and frustrated attempt to arrest the young man.

Nhyira News sources say, the police grew more suspicious of Asamoah’s behaviour and decided to conduct a search in his room. Even though nothing was found in his room, the police were not convinced and proceeded to Richmond’s room. It was in his room that the substance believed to be cocaine was discovered.

Richmond then named Asamoah as owner of the substances and the latter accepted responsibility for the substance.

Commander of the Drug Enforcement Unit, ASP Jeremiah Alale, declines to give details of the arrest only to say: “We’ve gotten a lot [of drug dealers]. In fact the public, we don’t say it so they don’t know what we are doing. But so many of them are in there [prisons]… the issue is that, the drugs are in short of supply here now as I am speaking.”

Asamoah has since been remanded into prison custody by a Circuit Court in Kumasi.

Source: Adom Online