The Al-Hajj has been vindicated in its yesterday's major story captioned “Police in Fresh Cocaine Scandal”.
A follow up investigations yesterday revealed that the three suspects who were arrested with cocaine by the Madina Police on 3rd March, 2012 at a place near East Legon in Accra have been remanded in custody on Monday, 19th March 2012 to reappear in court on a later date.
The three suspects namely, Aryeetey, Owusu and Oweriku (a.k.a Owura) were arrested in a Mercedes Benz car and sent to Madina police station, where the policemen allegedly demanded $200,000 in order to be allowed to escape.
When the Al-Hajj contacted the Madina District Crime Officer last Monday he denied knowledge of any such arrests; this was further corroborated by his Deputy, one Superintendent Amos.
The Al-Hajj, trusting the source of our information on Tuesday March 13th 2012 persisted and followed up with another enquiry from the two officers at the Madina Police station who, in spite of our strong contention, insisted; there was no such case at the station.
However, things took a different turn when, two days later, these same officers admitted that, indeed there was such arrest, but that, the matter was on Wednesday 14th March 2012 taken-over by the Accra Regional Police command.
When the paper contacted the Accra Regional Police, the Deputy Crime Officer, Superintendent Apenteng admitted on Friday, 16th March, 2012 that such a case from the Madina Police is before him and that; one Inspector Suglo is the one pursuing the case.
NACOB officials on that same Friday conducted a test on the substance and was 80% confirmed to be cocaine.
The Regional Crime Officer on Monday explained that the case was transferred from Madina to the regional office as a result of delay in handling it.
He denied knowledge of the $200,000 allegedly demanded from the police in order to let suspects escape. “If there is anything like that then, it didn't happen here”, he added.
He didn't give much details of the case for fear of contempt of court.
We shall update readers of subsequent development.
