FROM DAILY GUIDE
DAILY GUIDE has learnt that security agencies have intercepted huge amounts of cocaine at the western gate of the Tema Harbour.
Sources at the harbour said about 125 slabs of substances suspected to be cocaine are involved. Each slab weighed one kilogramme.
The narcotic substance was said to have been imported into the country on board Maersk Line container from the United States which docked at the port on October 9, 2010.
Three people, including the Managing Director of the clearing agency, Freight Accord Limited, are currently being interrogated by the security agencies.
Sources say the container in which the cocaine was found was imported by a company called Formula Trust.
The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) is said to have brought the narcotic substance to Accra for safe keeping while investigation is underway.
Meanwhile, security agents had seized the mobile phone of a reporter from Oman FM, Moses Dawutey, who was reporting live from the scene as at press time yesterday.
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