Two cops got hit with a combined 30 years behind bars after a court in Gbetsile found them guilty of running drugs. ASP Nasiru Amadu and Corporal Emmanuel Mintah were busted back in 2023 when district police in Afienya pulled over their Nissan Navara during a checkpoint operation. Officers found eight bags stuffed with 541 blocks of narcotics that the pair was hauling from Ho to Accra.
The prosecutor laid out how Mintah got recruited by his relative Oluman, who deals out of Ashaiman Tulaku, and then Mintah brought Amadu into the scheme. The two used an official police vehicle to pick up the drugs from a Benz bus near Peki Tsibu in the Volta Region, and investigators confirmed this was actually their second run.
Judge Eleanor Kakra Banes Botchway sentenced each officer to concurrent terms of 5 and 10 years, plus fines of 10,000 penalty units that convert to 120,000 cedis. If they don't pay up, they get three more years tacked on.
The prosecutor laid out how Mintah got recruited by his relative Oluman, who deals out of Ashaiman Tulaku, and then Mintah brought Amadu into the scheme. The two used an official police vehicle to pick up the drugs from a Benz bus near Peki Tsibu in the Volta Region, and investigators confirmed this was actually their second run.
Judge Eleanor Kakra Banes Botchway sentenced each officer to concurrent terms of 5 and 10 years, plus fines of 10,000 penalty units that convert to 120,000 cedis. If they don't pay up, they get three more years tacked on.
