10/3/2025
The Ghana Police Service has refuted reports that exhibits in an ongoing narcotics case in the Eastern Region have disappeared, insisting that all 36 sacks of substances suspected to be Indian hemp remain intact.
In a statement, the Police Administration urged the public to disregard what it described as false media claims that the impounded sacks had turned into sawdust. Officials confirmed that both the seized truck and the exhibits are still in the custody of the Eastern Regional Command.
The Ghana Police Service is fighting a public relations fire this morning, strongly denying media reports that 36 sacks of seized cannabis have vanished and been replaced with sawdust. This is not some village folk tale; it’s a serious accusation about an exhibit room where the evidence is supposed to be locked down tighter than a presidential budget.
The denial follows a bizarre social media claim that the haul, intercepted in the Eastern Region, had been completely switched. You can almost smell the dry dust and paranoia every time a major drug seizure is made and then disappears in thin air. But the police insist those 36 sacks of suspected Indian hemp are accounted for and securely stored.
The case started on September 30, when officers in Koforidua intercepted a Kia truck, registration ER-760-23, on the Sekesua road. The vehicle was carrying two types of cargo: legitimate sawdust and, underneath it, the 36 sacks of suspected narcotics (Per Police Administration statement, October 3, 2025).
And… the trouble is, when the truck was moved to the Sekesua Police Station, the driver and his mate decided they had seen enough and promptly disappeared into the bush. The Police Professional Standards Bureau (PPSB), the internal affairs unit, has now stepped in to investigate the chain of custody, a necessary evil given Ghana’s long history of exhibit room scandals.
Yet, despite the assurance that the 36 sacks are intact and at the Eastern Regional Command, the crucial suspects are still on the run. Can the police fully close this case without catching the two men who know exactly what was inside that truck?
Source: https://citinewsroom.com/2025/10/e-r-no-exhibits-missing-36-sacks-of-suspected-indian-hemp-intact-police/