The Asamankese Circuit Court has sentenced a 34-year-ancient head watchman to a fine of GH¢120,000 for having a opiate plant.
In default, Kwaku Tweneboah will serve three a long time in jail as his activity is opposite to segment 41(2) of the Opiate Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019).
Prosecutor Common Sergeant Samuel Owusu said the complainants, in this case, are policemen positioned at the Akyem Oda Division while the convict may be a doorman at Oda.
He said on July 6, at almost 11am, the complainants who were on motorbike watching the Oda township had a tip-off that the convict along side a gather of youthful men had assembled at a area famous for medicate peddling.
Concurring to him, the police continued to the area where they found the convict and a few other people exchanging drugs.
The suspects, he said, upon seeing the police catapulted but were chased until the convict was captured close a broken down wooden structure.
Sergeant Owusu said the convict tossed absent a dark polythene pack in his ownership. Be that as it may, the officers recovered it and found 51 wraps of opiate plant suspected to be cannabis and an sum of GH¢7.00.
He was sent to the Oda Divisional Police Command where he was charged and arraigned.