THE Greater Accra Regional Tribunal has sentenced a woman to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for narcotic-related offences.
The woman, Janet Afeme, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted exportation of narcotics without licence from the Ministry of Health and possession of narcotic drugs and she was convicted and sentenced on her own plea.
According to the facts of the case, Janet was arrested at the Kotoka International Airport at about 9.30 a.m. on November 30, last year when she was going through departure formalities to board a KLM flight to Amsterdam.
Officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) suspected her to be carrying narcotic drugs and a search revealed that she had concealed 48 cake sizes of a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine in her underpants.
She told the NACOB officials that she received the substance from someone she named only as Peter and that it was to be delivered to someone in Amsterdam for a fee of 7,000 Euros.
When the substance was sent to the Ghana Standards Board for test, it proved positive for cocaine, with a net weight of 2.946 grammes.
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