Ghana’s Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) has impounded a 20-foot cargo truck with substance suspected to be marijuana and arrested two driver’s assistants who were on the vehicle. The substance, which was compressed to the form of notebooks and packed in over 100 maize sacks, were loaded in the truck that was also carrying maize. The owner of the marijuana is not known and the driver has escaped. CEPS officials said in Accra that the truck was impounded at the weekend. The street value is yet to be determined. Africanus Owusu-Ansah, Deputy Commissioner of CEPS in-charge of Preventive, said customs officials were determined to track down drug barons who were denting the image of the country, which was cited by world institutions as a transit point for cocaine and heroine. “Customs is now very serious. We are up to the task…and those who intend smuggling should take a cue from this and desist from such acts. Anyone caught dealing in narcotics would face the law,” he said.
