TWO NIGERIA ARRESTED IN GHANA FOR IMPORTING 200Kg OF cocaine
Two Nigerians, Sunny Ekecukwu Beji Eke, 53 and
James Elekechukwu, 47 have been apprehended in connection with the importation
of 200 kg of cocaine with an approximated street value of $ 12 million.
The arrest of the two Nigerian businessmen was
preceded by the seizure of the drugs by the Narcotic Control Board (NACOB). The
seizure has been described as the biggest in recent times in the West African
country’s Tema Harbour. Street Journal gathered that the illicit substance
was carefully concealed in a 40-foot container with the number MRK 257478-45 GI
laden with 1,946 boxes of shampoo imported from Bolivia. Nii Lante Blankson, the Deputy Executive Secretary
of NACOB disclosed that an intelligence report was received last December that
a cargo said to contain cosmetics was heading for Tema Harbour and that the
said cargo was also suspected to contain some narcotics.
He stated that when the container docked at Tema on
January 29, NACOB officials immediately mounted surveillance on it and when a
clearing agent showed up after two weeks with the necessary papers to clear the
goods, he was promptly arrested to aid investigations. According to the NACOB
Deputy Executive Secretary, the cargo was originally built to contain 22
pallets of different cosmetics but when it was examined, it was found to
contain 1,946 cartons, 33 of which contained 198 yellow bottles of cocaine
while 29 others contained 174 green bottles of cocaine.
The container was subsequently traced to
Elekechukwu who was arrested in his house near Welja. He however opened up on
interrogation that the container actually belonged to Chief Eze, who he said
was his classmate and friend.
Findings have also revealed that Chief Eke’s
company, De Consumables Company was allegedly registered using fake documents.
Eze was arrested at the Accra Shopping Mall during a meeting with the clearing
agent and Elekechukwu after being carefully lured to Ghana. Four Nigerian
passports with different names were found in his possession.
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