Grams of suspected cocaine allegedly goes missing in GRA custody

In what could become the latest tale of missing narcotics in the custody of the state, 100.1 grams of a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine cannot be accounted for by the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).

According to the Narcotics Control Commission, the incident occurred on Sunday, June 7, 2020, at Aflao in the Volta Region. Director-General of NACOC, Francis Torkornoo said his officers after impounding a vehicle that had concealed the substances under

its fuel tank on Friday, June 2020, took inventory of all the packages, which included $200,000 and wanted to send it to Accra for investigations but Customs officers refused.

“When they dropped the fuel tank, there was this false compartment under the vehicle containing various parcels and an amount of $200,000. After the inventory, as expected, NACOC wanted to the

bring the vehicle to Accra for investigations to start, but the Customs officers refused, saying that they need to hear from their superiors from Accra,” he said.

He added that, “The team had a meeting and another inventory was taken [on Sunday] and this time, one whitish substance weighing 100.1 gram was missing from all that they saw on Friday, so my officers insisted that if the narration of the inventory does not change, they were not going to sign,” he said.