E/R: SHS teacher and four others arrested in connection with cannabis farm in forest reserve.
The Afram Plains North District office of the Forestry Commission of Ghana has captured five suspects including a Senior High School educator for cultivating cannabis in a timberland save.
Michael Anakpo, an educator at Donkorkrom Agric Senior High School said to be the posse chief and his accessories were captured while in the around 80 hectares marijuana ranch inside the woods.
Different suspects are Blewu Nomenyo, Korsi Mawuena, Charles Kale, and Emmanuel Kojo.
In excess of ten different suspects met on the marijuana ranch anyway figured out how to get away from after endeavored assault on the ranger service authorities.
The Forestry activity group drove by the District Forestry Manager Richard Amoateng , recovered 3 major sacks,and 6 scaled down sacks of the gathered Cannabis, 5 Plastic water compartments loaded up with collected pot, cutlasses , liquor bound with weed and numerous others.
The suspects had likewise breast fed numerous seedlings of marijuana to be planted.
The group likewise included around 13 tents in the ranch that obliged them.
They had likewise raised an admonition sign "Don't endeavor."
Osofoba Enock, neighborhood Journalist told Nkawkaw based Agoo FM Saturday August 13,2022 that, "the Forestry Commission had data that, a few suspects had ranch around 80 hectares of Cannabis ranch in Obour Nkrumah timberland save . So the Forestry Commission activated men to direct activity yet when they went there the suspects endeavored to go after the Forestry authorities constraining Mr. Amoateng who was the head of the activity to shoot advance notice shots with his side arm.
"Be that as it may, the suspects opposed and attempted to butcher the ranger service authorities with blades yet the absolute backwoods monitors who had laid trap in pieces of the timberland arose and sought after to suspects which five were captured."
He proceeded" "Michael Anakpo who is the group chief is an instructor at Donkorkrom Agriculture SHS .The suspects have been given over to the police. The activity group recovered 3 major sacks,and 6 smaller than usual sacks of the gathered Cannabis, 5 barrels holders generally loaded up with collected marijuana, cutlasses, and numerous others."
The Forestry Commission is planning to attack the weed ranch for annihilation.
Ghana's new Narcotics Control Commission Act, 2020 (Act 1019) ,passed by Parliament on March 20, 2020 and consented to by the President on May 11, 2020, looks to regard drug use and reliance as a general medical problem as opposed to zeroing in on policing, discipline and suppression. The new regulation has changed over jail term for drug ownership for individual use into a fine of between 200 to 500 punishment units comparable to Ghc2,400 to Ghc 6000 separately.
Segment 43 of Act 1019 of the Narcotic Control Commission Act, 2022 (Act 1019) specifies that "the Minister on the suggestion of the Commission, may give a permit for the development of pot prominently alluded to as "small" in Ghana, which isn't more than 0.3 % THC content on a dry weight reason for modern purposes for getting fiber or seed for restorative purposes."
In any case, in a 4-3 larger part choice Wednesday (July 28, 2022), a seven-part board of the zenith court held this segment disregards Article 106 of the 1992 Constitution, which subtleties the cycles a bill should go through before it is passed into regulation by Parliament, and was subsequently invalid and void.
The Eastern Regional Minister Seth Kwame Acheampong who is Ghana's delegate on UN Commission on Narcotics Drug (UNODC), and the Former Executive Secretary of now Narcotics Control Commission (NCC) Yaw Akrasi Sarpong.
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