As directed by the Accra Circuit Court, the Ghana Police Service’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has destroyed a sizable amount of illegal drugs.
248 fertilizer sacks, 315 wraps, 24 sachets, 68 compressed slabs of different drugs, and three medium-sized buckets of heroin were among the goods burned.
“We are here to destroy some substances; cocaine, dry leaves thus cannabis, after those cases have been dealt with by the court,” Registrar at the Accra Circuit Court Prosper Kingsley Damakah revealed to journalists
The drugs were taken into custody and used as proof in circuit court trials from 2020 to 2024.
“Some of the cases started in 2020. The people were arrested by the Police, charged and brought to court. Judgments have been delivered in the cases’ Mr. Damakah clarified.
Representatives from the Judicial Service and the Narcotics Control Commission were present when the drugs were burned at the coast behind Black Star Square in Accra.
